The education department in Northern Ireland has removed research on LGBTQ+ pupils from its website.

The research, commissioned by the Department of Education itself in 2015, was publicly published in 2017 and detailed the school experiences of 16 to 21-year-olds who are LGBTQ+.

At the time, the research found two-thirds of LGBTQ+ young people did not feel welcome in their schools and nearly half said they experienced bullying because of their sexuality and/or gender.

An archived version of the webpage shows it still available to view in March of this year but now no longer available , showing instead a “page not found” message.

Paul Givan , who has been Northern Ireland’s education minister since February 2024, told Good Morning Ulster the LGBTQ+ research was part of around 50 documen

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