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[[File:Shaun-Dellenty.jpg|thumb|Shaun Dellenty]]'''Shaun Dellenty''' (born 1968) is the Deputy Headteacher of Alfred Salter Primary School in Southwark, London. He also founded the small charitable organisation "[[Inclusion For All]]" or I.F.A.
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[[File:Shaun-Dellenty.jpg|thumb|Shaun Dellenty]]'''Shaun Dellenty''' (born 1968) is the Deputy Headteacher of Alfred Salter Primary School in London. After leaving school Dellenty worked as civil servant in Rugby and as a professional midlands based actor. Dellenty appeared in various programmes such as 'Peak Practice' 'Crimewatch' and 'Emmerdale'. Dellenty was also the resident emcee at Coombe Abbey in Coventry for a number of years.
  
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Having previously worked as a civil servant and professional actor, Dellenty started working at Alfred Salter Primary School in Southwark London in 2001, having qualified as a teacher in 1995.
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Having qualified as a teacher in 1996, Dellenty, has also worked previously as a seconded improving schools consultant and he now serves as a part time equalities consultant (in addition to his full time role as a school leader.)

  
 
==Campaign on homophobic bullying==
 
==Campaign on homophobic bullying==
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A survivor of sustained homophobic bullying as a child (which resulted in him walking out of state education in 1987) Dellenty remained ‘closeted’ as a teacher until 2009. In November 2009 Dellenty’s own school uncovered via pupil questionnaires that 75% pupils within school in the Bermondsey/Rotherhithe locality were being subjected to daily homophobic language or abuse or were hearing the word ‘gay’ being used as a pejorative term on a daily basis. In response and using the date as a trigger‘came out’ to his whole school community and founded 'Inclusion For All', a small not for profit charitable organisation aiming to effect organisational change in communities, schools, faith schools and other educational contexts. Such was the rapid success and interest in Dellenty’s life- story and IFA work, he has now supported or spoken across a huge range of schools, teacher training establishments, faith schools, local authorities and anti-bullying organisations including; Amnesty UK, Stonewall, National College of Teaching and Leadership, NSPCC, Kidscape, Open University, Liverpool Hope and John Moores Univerities, London South Bank, Institute of Education, Hull University, University of Greenwich, House of Commons and many more.

In addition to school based training sessions Dellenty also speaks on radio and television and at hate crime and anti-bullying conferences, TEDx, national LGBT Pride events and LGBT history month events both in the UK and abroad. In 2014 alone Dellenty had invitations to speak to audiences in Ireland, Scotland, Italy, Hungary and Armenia. In 2013 Inclusion For All was awarded the Southwark Good Practice Award by the mayor of Southwark.
 Dellenty leads regional IFA training days around the country with recently arranged events in Brighton, Liverpool, Gateshead, Birmingham, Hull, Cheshire, London, and Devon. Dellenty's work has been the feature of articles in the Times Educational Supplement, Leadership Focus, LDR Magazine, Teach Primary, Huffington Post, The Guardian, London Evening Standard, The Mirror, The Telegraph and many more. A prolific writer and blogger, Dellenty has written articles for Teach Primary magazine, The Guardian, Gay Star News, Gay Times, LDR magazine and others.

In 2012 and 2013 Dellenty was nominated onto the Independent on Sunday 'Pink List' of the 101 most influential LGBT people in the UK. In 2013 and 2014 he was nominated for the Royal Air Force 'LGBT Inspirational Role Model Award' by Square Peg Media. In 2013 and 2014 he was nominated as 'LGBT Inspirational Role Model' at the National Diversity Awards and Inclusion For All was nominated for the 'LGBT Community Group' award. Dellenty has also been nominated ‘Unsung Hero In Education’ at the 2015 Excellence In Diversity Awards. 

In 2013 and 2014 Dellenty was invited to help judge the Amnesty International Young Journalist of the Year Award. In June 2013 and 2014 Dellenty returned to his old secondary school in Leicestershire to speak about growing up gay being bullied and his IFA work, writing about his experience in an article for The Guardian which went viral.In Autumn 2014 Dellenty’s IFA work will be broadcast nationally as part of the CBBC series ‘Our School’ In May 2014 Dellenty's IFA work was recommended by the Church of England in their ‘Valuing All God’s Children’ anti-homophobic bullying resource; Dellenty led a student workshop alongside secondary school pupils and the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby at Trinity School Lewisham with headteacher Father Richard Peers naming Shaun as ‘the best speaker on homophobic bullying I have heard’. In 2015 Dellenty will be speaking at the London Festival of Education; he writing his first book ‘That Gay Teacher’ about his journey and IFA work. In 2012 Dellenty worked with EV Crowe and the cast and production team of the play 'Hero' at the Royal Court Theatre, which was in part inspired by observations undertaken by the 'Hero' cast and production team of Dellenty working with pupils in school. Dellenty will also be appearing in the forthcoming 'After 82' to discuss the arrival of HIV/AIDS in the UK and the role of sex education in schools. http://www.after82.co.uk/
  
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In 2010, shocked by levels of homophobic bullying, language and the pejorative use of the word 'gay' in local schools and the local community Dellenty 'came out' to the education community in an attempt to serve as a positive teaching LGBT role model.
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Dellenty is also very active on Twitter under the handle: @ShaunDellenty
  
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Dellenty went on to devise an ongoing child centred whole school strategy (Inclusion For All) in order to tackle homophobic and LGBT based bullying and to shift school culture and ethos to prevent prejudice and discrimination arising in the first place. Following success in reducing homophobia in his own school and an OFSTED 'outstanding' rating for the work, Dellenty offered training to local authorities and other schools.
 
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On May 17th 2012 www.shaundellenty.co.uk was launched, a website dedicated to Dellenty's anti-homophobic bullying work which also recounted his own experiences of being seriously homophobically bullied at school. The website featured interviews with teachers who had undertaken Inclusion For All work, in addition to sharing resources aimed at supporting other education professionals.
 
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In 2012 Alfred Salter Primary school became the first primary school in the UK to offer regular training days and outreach to help other educators prevent LGBT based bullying. Dellenty runs one training day per term at the school in addition to doing outreach work.
 
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Dellenty went on to support other educational professionals, school governors, local authorities, teacher training establishments, police and  health workers, human rights and anti-bullying organisations in preventing homophobic/LGBT related bullying and language.
 
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Social media enabled Dellenty to reach a global audience with his Inclusion For All work and he continues to be a regular speaker at conferences, anti-bullying/Pride events and in schools and teacher training establishments across the UK. In 2012 he spoke at the Hate Crime Vigil in Trafalgar Square, London. Dellenty blogs for the Huffington Post, The Guardian Teacher Network and Gay Star News. He has also written many articles on the subject of homophobic bullying for teacher magazines and journals, including Teach Primary, LDR Magazine and Headteacher Update.
 
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In 2012 Dellenty worked with EV Crowe and the cast and production team of the play 'Hero' at the Royal Court Theatre, which was in part inspired by observations undertaken by the 'Hero' cast and production team of Dellenty working with pupils in school.
 
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Dellenty has recorded a number of online video messages, including one as part of the 'It Gets Better' Project and another for the 'Proud2be' campaign.
 
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==Awards and recognition==
 
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Shaun Dellenty was ranked 77 in the ''Independent on Sunday'' [[Pink List 2012]].
 
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In 2013 Dellenty was nominated for the Royal Air force 'Inspirational LGBT Role Model' at the 2013 [[g3/Out In The City Awards]].
 
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In 2013 IFA and Alfred Salter Primary School were awarded the 'Southwark Good Practice Award' for their anti-homophobia work.
 
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IFA were nominated 'LGBT Community Group' at the 2013 National Diversity Awards and Dellenty as 'Inspirational LGBT Role Model'
 
  
 
==External links==
 
==External links==

Revision as of 19:01, 6 November 2014

Shaun Dellenty
Shaun Dellenty (born 1968) is the Deputy Headteacher of Alfred Salter Primary School in London. After leaving school Dellenty worked as civil servant in Rugby and as a professional midlands based actor. Dellenty appeared in various programmes such as 'Peak Practice' 'Crimewatch' and 'Emmerdale'. Dellenty was also the resident emcee at Coombe Abbey in Coventry for a number of years.

Having qualified as a teacher in 1996, Dellenty, has also worked previously as a seconded improving schools consultant and he now serves as a part time equalities consultant (in addition to his full time role as a school leader.)


Campaign on homophobic bullying

A survivor of sustained homophobic bullying as a child (which resulted in him walking out of state education in 1987) Dellenty remained ‘closeted’ as a teacher until 2009. In November 2009 Dellenty’s own school uncovered via pupil questionnaires that 75% pupils within school in the Bermondsey/Rotherhithe locality were being subjected to daily homophobic language or abuse or were hearing the word ‘gay’ being used as a pejorative term on a daily basis. In response and using the date as a trigger‘came out’ to his whole school community and founded 'Inclusion For All', a small not for profit charitable organisation aiming to effect organisational change in communities, schools, faith schools and other educational contexts. Such was the rapid success and interest in Dellenty’s life- story and IFA work, he has now supported or spoken across a huge range of schools, teacher training establishments, faith schools, local authorities and anti-bullying organisations including; Amnesty UK, Stonewall, National College of Teaching and Leadership, NSPCC, Kidscape, Open University, Liverpool Hope and John Moores Univerities, London South Bank, Institute of Education, Hull University, University of Greenwich, House of Commons and many more.

In addition to school based training sessions Dellenty also speaks on radio and television and at hate crime and anti-bullying conferences, TEDx, national LGBT Pride events and LGBT history month events both in the UK and abroad. In 2014 alone Dellenty had invitations to speak to audiences in Ireland, Scotland, Italy, Hungary and Armenia. In 2013 Inclusion For All was awarded the Southwark Good Practice Award by the mayor of Southwark.
 Dellenty leads regional IFA training days around the country with recently arranged events in Brighton, Liverpool, Gateshead, Birmingham, Hull, Cheshire, London, and Devon. Dellenty's work has been the feature of articles in the Times Educational Supplement, Leadership Focus, LDR Magazine, Teach Primary, Huffington Post, The Guardian, London Evening Standard, The Mirror, The Telegraph and many more. A prolific writer and blogger, Dellenty has written articles for Teach Primary magazine, The Guardian, Gay Star News, Gay Times, LDR magazine and others.

In 2012 and 2013 Dellenty was nominated onto the Independent on Sunday 'Pink List' of the 101 most influential LGBT people in the UK. In 2013 and 2014 he was nominated for the Royal Air Force 'LGBT Inspirational Role Model Award' by Square Peg Media. In 2013 and 2014 he was nominated as 'LGBT Inspirational Role Model' at the National Diversity Awards and Inclusion For All was nominated for the 'LGBT Community Group' award. Dellenty has also been nominated ‘Unsung Hero In Education’ at the 2015 Excellence In Diversity Awards. 

In 2013 and 2014 Dellenty was invited to help judge the Amnesty International Young Journalist of the Year Award. In June 2013 and 2014 Dellenty returned to his old secondary school in Leicestershire to speak about growing up gay being bullied and his IFA work, writing about his experience in an article for The Guardian which went viral.In Autumn 2014 Dellenty’s IFA work will be broadcast nationally as part of the CBBC series ‘Our School’ In May 2014 Dellenty's IFA work was recommended by the Church of England in their ‘Valuing All God’s Children’ anti-homophobic bullying resource; Dellenty led a student workshop alongside secondary school pupils and the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby at Trinity School Lewisham with headteacher Father Richard Peers naming Shaun as ‘the best speaker on homophobic bullying I have heard’. In 2015 Dellenty will be speaking at the London Festival of Education; he writing his first book ‘That Gay Teacher’ about his journey and IFA work. In 2012 Dellenty worked with EV Crowe and the cast and production team of the play 'Hero' at the Royal Court Theatre, which was in part inspired by observations undertaken by the 'Hero' cast and production team of Dellenty working with pupils in school. Dellenty will also be appearing in the forthcoming 'After 82' to discuss the arrival of HIV/AIDS in the UK and the role of sex education in schools. http://www.after82.co.uk/

Dellenty is also very active on Twitter under the handle: @ShaunDellenty


External links

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