Hillsborough Tragedy in Schools.

Shaun Millea, Liverpool author started his journey to have the Hillsborough tragedy to be taught in schools in 2019 with the release of his book children's book.                                                                                              "Hillsborough When Will Dad Be Home - One Boys Story Of a Tragedy"

About Shaun and his Book

It’s been over 30 years since the Hillsborough Disaster and the pain in the city, although eased has never gone away, especially for the families of those loved ones who died so tragically.
 
A chance conversation in May 2018 prompted me to write this story. I had been reading one of my children’s books to a group of children at a festival in Toxteth Library in Liverpool when I got talking to a local lady who was telling me about her niece and nephew. They lived in Bristol and had come to visit Liverpool; she took them to see the tourist sites and visited the Hillsborough Memorial at Anfield Stadium. She told me that neither of them knew anything about Hillsborough or what had happened there, she’d tried to explain it to them but found it hard to do so as they were too young to grasp the enormity of it. I was very shocked that they didn’t know, but thinking about it later, maybe I shouldn’t have been!
 
In Liverpool we talk about it, we tell our children, we keep it alive so that it never happens to anyone ever again. Outside of the city,

Hillsborough can mean nothing to many, especially the young. So, I have decided to tell the story of Hillsborough in the form of a children’s book, in the hope that others understand what this city went through and why we won’t let it go or forget! It’s not based on real characters, but it is based on very real events that changed the face of football, the establishment, the city, its people and the families of the 96 who went to the match and never came home.

The Book goes' to Council

The Hillsborough Disaster will be added to the curriculum in Liverpool schools and its anniversary will be marked with a dedicated ‘Hillsborough Day’, after a motion was passed by the city council.
The motion put forward by Ian Byrne, MP for West Derby and a city councillor for Everton ward, proposed the annual day to mark the disaster and move towards teaching the history of it in schools.

It passed unopposed at last night’s (January 26 2022) council meeting and means that liverpool City Council  now supports aims of the 'The Real Truth Legacy Project’, which is led by Ian Byrne MP, in conjunction with many Hillsborough families and survivors.

The Book goes' to Parliament

Hillsborough disaster and the National Curriculum
EDM (Early Day Motion)649: tabled on
​15 November 2021
Tabled in the 2021-22 session.
This motion has been signed by 37 Members. It has not yet had any amendments submitted.

Motion text
That this House acknowledges that, 32 years after the Hillsborough disaster, criminal trials collapsed in May 2021 and nobody has been held to account for the unlawful killings of 97 innocent people; acknowledges that it took 23 years of campaigning for the truth about the disaster to be finally acknowledged at the Hillsborough Independent Panel and for lies and smears about victims and survivors to be corrected; further acknowledges that it took 27 years for the true inquest verdicts of unlawful killing to be recorded; recognises the important work of the hon. Member for Garston and Halewood in getting Parliament to learn lessons from the disaster and her work to introduce legislation that would ensure that bereaved families and survivors of future disasters never go through the injustices faced by the Hillsborough families and survivors; furthermore recognises the important role of education in learning the lessons from the disaster; and calls on the Government to include the Hillsborough disaster in the National Curriculum, a programme of education which should cover the events of the past 32 years, the continuing campaign for justice and how we ensure the events of that fateful day are not forgotten and that the ensuing miscarriage of justice is never repeated.
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The Book goes' to Schools.

​After a long campaign with our partners we have now created a learning pack on the Hillsborough  disaster to be taught in schools on the National Curriculum.

Shaun' Millea has gifted his book to the learning pack which makes it available in the learning pack as a digital copy. This is a great achievement to all the passionate people who have been involved in this important campaign.

The digital copy is also available below for you to view, how ever we have had many emails for a hard copy of the book. so we have teamed up with National Literacy Trust to provide hard copies to schools, to achieve this comes at a cost, so we would appreciate,  

Get Involved

The digital copy is also available below for you to view, how ever we have had many emails for a hard copy of the book. so we have teamed up with National Literacy Trust ​to provide hard copies to schools, to achieve this comes at a cost, so this is how you can get involved and join us with this campaign so we would really appreciate,  any donations to bring this book to children so the children can take it home and share it with their families.