LGBT clubs in secondary schools
Dear Abbot Beyne School, Burton-on-Trent,
1. Does your school have a LGBT/LGBTQ/LGBTQ+/LGBTQIA+ club or similar for pupils? If yes, what is the name of the club?
Please disclose the following information for the academic years 2021/22 and 2022/23:
2. The scope and purpose of this club
3. Age range of pupils invited to attend the club, and membership numbers
4. The name(s) of the provider(s) for activities, resources and training and/or support, and/or running the club if you use external providers.
5. Scheduling including topics and/or activities, dates and length of club meetings.
6. Management of the club - including the names/position of who runs the club, and helped run the club, and if pupils, the number of students and year groups who run and help run the club. If external volunteers or youth workers etc. run or assist with the club, their role or title and organisations.
7. Communications to pupils. Please list types of communications used eg online school systems, posters in hallways and classrooms, assemblies etc and provide copies of the posters, displays, leaflets, emails and any other forms of communication.
8. Communication to parents and carers. Has the existence of the club been communicated to parents and carers? If so, please provide copies of communications.
9. Any specific safeguarding policies or guidelines for the club.
If this request needs refining to make it possible for you to comply without incurring excessive costs, please consider ways in which you can help me to refine my request so you can answer my request without exceeding the appropriate limit.
Yours faithfully,
Sally Ring
Dear Sally
In response to your recent FOIR:
1. We have no LGBT (or similar) club.
It would seem that the answer above renders all other answers as N/A
Kind Regards
James Church
Deputy Headteacher and Head of Sixth Form
Abbot Beyne School
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