New rules to ban teachers from politicising Black Lives Matter and British Empire

This is the first Government guidance of its kind on how schools should approach the teaching of sensitive issues (Alamy/PA)

New Government guidance on political impartiality in schools urges teachers to approach “contentious and disputed” periods of history such as the British Empire in a “balanced” manner.

The guidance, issued by the Department for Education (DfE), also tells schools to avoid promoting campaign groups such as Black Lives Matter who have “partisan political views”.