The proposed rise in the school leaving age could see more young people in the UK being bullied because of their sexual orientation, according to an international study.
A report from Brunel University and the University of Illinois, published in the March 2013 edition of Pediatrics, found that while teenagers who are lesbian, gay or bisexual (LGB) are twice as likely as their heterosexual peers to be bullied at school, this decreases as they get older.
The study was conducted using data from the DfE’s Longitudinal Survey of Young People in England survey, which examined the bullying experiences of 8,700 adolescents and young people.
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