IELA – Creating a Culture of LGBT+ Allyship

12 May 2025 @ 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Date: May 12, 2025
Time: 14:30 – 15:30
Cost: IELA Member Rate: £90, IELA Additional Full Member Rate: £45, Non-member Rate: £180*
Audience: EDI leaders, Managers, HR specialists, SLT, Anyone with an interest and passion for inclusion
Platform: Zoom (online) – webinar

Course outline:

Allyship is an essential part of anti-discriminatory practice. In any community, allyship can be tricky to navigate. This webinar will focus on allyship in the LGBT+ community. Questions can arise such as ‘How do I know if I am supporting others in the right way?’ and ‘What does it really mean to be a good ally?’ This webinar will provide a clear roadmap to support all on their journey to affective allyship. It will also cover the four pillars of Allyship: acknowledge, converse, educate and stance.

Training topics will include:

What effective allyship can looks like in your setting
Provide examples of successful allyship
Putting the four pillars of allyship into practice

Learning outcomes

Develop a clear understanding what it means to be an ally.
Identifying ways which in which your allyship can be effective.
Knowledge of the four pillars of allyship

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Speaker:

Ed Boulter-Comer

Ed Started teaching in the Independent Sector in 2002. The State Sector could not employ him at that point as he was gay, very much out of the closet, and Section 28 still forbade the ‘promotion’ of homosexuality. Being a teacher well before sexual orientation became a protected characteristic in 2010, he has forged a career of ‘firsts’ in the schools he has worked in. First out teacher. First out teacher in a boarding House. First teacher to get a civil partnership. First teacher to have adoption leave. First gay Houseparent. Going first can be a leap of faith for individuals and institutions and Ed will share some of the ways in which he has brought people along with him over the past two decades.

Ed is the Houseparent of a Senior Boy’s House at Fettes College in Edinburgh. He, his husband, and their two children live alongside 60 students, not all of whom are boys.