Part of 2. Questions to the Leader of the House – in the Senedd at 2:49 pm on 28 February 2018.
Yes indeed, we're very proud of the This is Me campaign, which I launched in Gower College a few weeks ago now. It's been widely taken up on social media, and, as the Member will know, it's based very much on promoting what the research shows us, which is that increased gender equality and transgender equality decreases violence as people are able to just express themselves as they wish to be and are not forced into roles and stereotypes that mean that they're not able to cope with their general life.
We have a number of very specific things we do around hate crime. The hate crime criminal justice board will set its 2018 objectives on 9 May. These will be aligned to our 2014 tackling hate crimes and incidents framework. The three objectives are on prevention, support and improving a multi-agency response. We also, as I said in an earlier answer, under the equality and inclusion programme, fund Victim Support at around £624,000 and Stonewall Cymru at around £250,000 a year.
The national hate crime report and support centre, run by Victim Support, continues to raise awareness and help victims of homophobic hate crime. They work closely with their sister service, Rainbow Bridge LGBT domestic abuse service. I hope the Member is aware of Stonewall Cymru's Come Out For LGBT campaign, which encourages people to take a visible stand against LGBT hate crime and show support for LGBT equality in all forms.
We're also, as he specifically asked about schools, working to make sure school staff are well equipped and confident about tackling hate-related bullying. In 2015, the Welsh Government published lesson plans for schools on gender- and transgender-based bullying, aimed at key stages 3 and 4, which can be found in our digital learning service Hwb.