The project set out to develop and pilot a survey tool, which second-level schools can use to evaluate the positivity of their school climate and culture in relation to attitudes towards difference and diversity, with specific reference to LGBT identity. It was envisaged that the tool would be particularly useful in preventing / dealing with homophobic and transphobic bullying. It was developed by the Principal Investigator, Dr. Debbie Ging of the National Anti-Bullying Research and Resource Centre in Dublin City University, in collaboration with the Gay and Lesbian Equality Network’s (GLEN) then Director of Education Policy Change, Sandra Irwin-Gowran, and Research Assistant, Joshua Savage. The project responded directly to the DES Action Plan on Bullying (2013), which recommended the development of this type on intervention, and to a key study commissioned by the Equality Authority, which stressed that Irish schools need to adopt a whole-school approach to LGBT inclusivity, including in particular whole school evaluation.