{"id":606172,"date":"2026-05-27T07:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/606172\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T07:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:15:09","slug":"anti-bullying-cuts-linked-to-racist-and-homophobic-exclusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/606172\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-bullying cuts linked to racist and homophobic exclusions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Education specialists told the BBC funding cuts to outreach services, social media harms, divisive politics and a lack of mandatory teacher training were among issues contributing to a growing problem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Less tolerance of discrimination, heightened awareness and a growth in the use of suspensions overall were also highlighted by charities, unions and teachers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pepe Di&#8217;lasio, General Secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), said schools only use exclusions as a &#8220;last resort&#8221; but would not tolerate discriminatory behaviour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Di&#8217;lasio added: &#8220;The problems we are seeing are huge societal issues which cannot be solved solely in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It feels as though we are living in an increasingly abrasive era.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Teaching union NASUWT has received &#8220;frequent reports&#8221; of teachers and pupils receiving prejudicial abuse, general secretary Matt Wrack said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wrack warned against &#8220;demonising young people&#8221; as he said issues in wider society are inevitably reflected in schools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The union has raised concerns with the DfE over the need to improve the recording and monitoring of bullying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Education specialists told the BBC funding cuts to outreach services, social media harms, divisive politics and a lack&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-606172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}