“Your training is so valuable to help us ensure we do the right thing to support our students.”
– Rainbow Flag School Representative
3 new packages to support your school or college
We are launching a new opportunity for all schools in September 2024 to invest in one of our LGBTQ+ Inclusion Packages:
Starting Out: to support Essential Best Practice – 8 hours of contact time
- For schools at the beginning of their LGBTQ+ inclusion journey
- £750 (£975 for Independent schools)
Flying the Flag: to support Developing Best Practice – 15 hours of contact time
- For schools looking to build on their essential best practice in LGBTQ+ inclusion
- £1500 (£2000)
Over The Rainbow: to support Embedded Best Practice – 30 hours of contact time
- Taking a school to the next level of LGBTQ+ inclusion
- £3000 (£3700)
How it works:
- Each package can be delivered over a time period of 1, 2 or 3 terms.
- You can choose how you use your hours based on the needs of your students and your school/college.
- Each package includes a training/briefing session for governors/trustees and senior leaders.
What can a package provide for your school/college?
Any combination of:
- One-to-one school-based student support
- LGBTQ+ Awareness & Inclusion workshops for students
- LGBTQ+ Assemblies for students
- LGBTQ+ Student Group in School support
- Peer mentoring scheme set-up & support
- LGBTQ+ Awareness & Inclusion training for staff
- Information, advice and guidance for pastoral staff, senior leaders and governors (inc. policy review)
- Inclusive curriculum review
In addition to your 8/15/30 hours of contact time, you will also receive:
- Termly updates on the hours you’ve used.
- Termly Kite Trust online Q & A/consultation sessions and an opportunity to connect with other schools and colleges in your area around LGBTQ+ inclusion.
- Easy referral pathways to LGBTQ+ youth groups, activities and residentials, outside of school hours.
- Easy referral pathways to The Kite Trust’s Family Support Service.
Contact for further details, including prices, and to discuss your school’s needs:
The Rainbow Flag Award
We proudly support the delivery of the Rainbow Flag Award locally.
The Rainbow Flag Award is a national quality assurance framework that has a focus on positive LGBT+ inclusion and visibility, for settings where young people exist. This includes:
- primary Schools
- secondary Schools
- SEND Schools
- alternative provisions
- FE colleges
- youth services
- youth clubs
- uniformed organisations, and
- other youth focused organisations
The Rainbow Flag Award encourages a whole organisation approach to LGBT+ inclusion, as well as developing strategies to effectively challenge and combat LGBTphobic bullying.
Click here for more information about participating in the Rainbow Flag Award.
Supporting Local
The Rainbow Flag Award is centrally managed by The Proud Trust, with many elements having devolved local delivery. This means that any monies generated from this scheme will help fund our vital work with LGBT+ young people.
What does it cost and what is the commitment?
Primary and other small schools: £795
Secondary schools: £995
Independent schools: £1295
This is for a one-year membership during which you will be supported to complete the award. You will then hold the award for an additional two years (at no extra cost) before being invited to renew it.
Membership includes:
- Two places (one for a member of your Senior Leadership Team) on starter training
- Access to the Members’ Area of the Rainbow Flag Award website where you can access your Rainbow Flag Award Handbook, a guide to ‘Developing Effective LGBT+ Inclusive Policies’, plus some other starter resources.
- Access to evidence reviews during the year, where you will receive detailed and constructive feedback on evidence you submit for each of the six Rainbow Flag Award sections.
- Access to ‘The Rainbow Flag Award Classroom’ – LGBTQ+ inclusive lessons in all curriculum areas for key stages 1 to 4.
- Ongoing advice and support via telephone and/or email during the year.
- 20% off the cost of any additional training, services and resources from The Kite Trust.
- 20% off the cost of resources produced by our Rainbow Flag Award partner organisations – see here.
What are the benefits?
Schools that take part in the Rainbow Flag Award will be supported to meet:
- Their legal requirements to ensure positive LGBT+ inclusion in schools, and to be effective in tackling LGBTphobic bullying;
- The Ofsted requirement for them to be teaching positively about LGBTQ+ lives;
- The requirements of the Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) curriculum in secondary schools, and Relationships Education in primary schools;
- Their moral requirement to meet the needs of all students, including those that are LGBTQ+.
For more information about participating in The Rainbow Flag Award, please email [email protected] or call us on 01223 369508.
Download the Rainbow Flag Award flyer here.
Download the Rainbow Flag Award application form here.
Supporting Local
While the Rainbow Flag Award is a national framework, delivery is by LGBTQ+ organisations working with LGBTQ+ communities in your local area. The Kite Trust has over 25 years’ history of working with LGBTQ+ young people in Cambridgeshire and the surrounding areas. This means that the content of any training will be up to date and relevant, with the needs and experiences of LGBTQ+ young people from across the East of England at the heart of delivery. Any monies generated from this scheme will help fund our vital work with LGBTQ+ young people locally.
Not in Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, Bedfordshire, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk or Northamptonshire? Find your local Rainbow Flag Award delivery organisation here.