BRITAIN’S biggest teaching union must “publicly raise the aspirations, hopes and dreams of LGBT students in schools,” educators demanded today.

Delegates at the National Education Union (NEU) annual conference in Harrogate overwhelmingly backed a motion warning that, two decades after the repeal of section 28 in 2003, many schools still lack safe spaces for LGBT children.

The widely condemned legislation — introduced in 1988 by the Thatcher government — prohibited the “promotion of homosexuality” in primaries and secondaries.