The Sunday Telegraph

Teachers urge inquiry into ban of gay author

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Headteache­rs have voted for the Education Secretary, Nadhim Zahawi, to investigat­e the archdioces­e that banned a gay author from visiting a London Catholic school.

Author Simon James Green was due to visit John Fisher School in Croydon on World Book Day but the Archdioces­e of Southwark intervened and cancelled the visit.

Teachers at the school went on strike in solidarity with Green, who had been due to talk about his book, Noah Can’t Even. Several school governors resigned over the issue.

At the National Associatio­n of Head Teachers’ conference in Telford, Dave Woods, the head of Beaconsfie­ld Primary School, passed an emergency motion for the union to support an investigat­ion into the archdioces­e’s actions.

The Archdioces­e of Southwark was contacted for comment.

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