A teaching union has called on education chiefs to act after a 16-year-old Welsh schoolboy was found running an extreme right-wing website. A report by the Western Mail’s sister paper Wales on Sunday revealed a website called The Carmarthenshire Front has been written and run by a GCSE pupil in the county. His school, Queen Elizabeth High, and the local education authority have sought to distance themselves from the website. Chris Keates, general secretary of the NASUWT, said the revelations were “deeply disturbing” and urged the authorities to take responsibility. “It is clear that there is still much more to be done to protect young people from having their attitudes poisoned in this way,” she said. “Families, schools, communities and government all have a responsibility to combat and challenge these unacceptable views. “It is not acceptable for either the school or local authority to claim to have no responsibility in this matter. They clearly do and the NASUWT will be seeking to ensure that this issue is taken seriously.” On Saturday, the country’s largest teaching union spoke out in support of the Unite Against Fascism group, who were marching against the far-right English Defence League’s anti-Muslim protest in Cardiff. NASUWT Wales organiser Rex Phillips said: “Given that schools are cited as one of the places to ‘hit’ in the spread of this extremist propaganda, the local authority must work with the Carmarthenshire schools to ensure this cannot happen.
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