ABSTRACT
Most schools in developed countries have at least some policies to guide how they work with students, parents, communities and staff. These policies provide a window onto their attitudes to different individuals and groups in the narrower and wider school communities, indicating how they are perceived, treated and valued. This chapter presents a school, which had a separate policy for LBGTQI parented families, though a few did mention them in broader policies, such as those about equality, sex and relationships or bullying. These different locations reflect different positionings of parents and students who are LGBTQI+. The chapter considers that the general characteristics of each policy, for example whether it appeared to have been adapted from one provided from elsewhere, or whether it seemed to have been specifically drawn up by the school. It analysis evidence that policies had been amended, or adopted wholesale, from local authorities, who might provide schools with a model policy for adaptation, and from other schools.
