
Plans for Britain’s first LGBT school shelved due to “lack of space”
Plans for a LGBT school have been shelved after a feasibility study found there was no “space” for the unit.
LGBT Youth North West, based in Manchester, was given £63,000 last January from Social Investment Business to discover what young LGBT people in the city wanted from the charity’s centre.
But Amelia Lee, strategic director for LGBT Youth North West, told Schools Week that while a school was its first choice, the group had opted to develop the site into accommodation units.
LGBT school shelved
She said that the space needed for a school was “bigger than what we could offer”.
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