Andrew Moffat

In 2020 the school announced Moffat had taken on a development lead position across the academy trust in order to train more teachers to deliver the No Outsiders programme. He has also assumed responsibility for delivering the Right Respecting Schools programme, a UNICEF initiative which ensures a safe learning environment based on children's rights.

In April 2020 Moffat released a second book, No Outsiders: Everyone Different, Everyone Welcome, an updated book about the programme.

In June 2019, Moffat along with 7 other prominent school leaders presented a parliamentary briefing on behalf of the National Association of Head Teachers entitled Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education. The presentation in Westminster and accompanying document advised parliament on current policy and asked for clarity and support in providing education around the Equality Act 2010's protected characteristics.

In 2019 Moffat was a finalist for the Global Teacher Prize from the Varkey Foundation.

The programme attracted criticism and protest at the school from a vocal minority of parents when it was introduced. The school has a 98% majority of children with Muslim parents, and the protestors objected principally on the grounds that they did not want their children to be taught about LGBT issues. In 2019, following Moffat's nomination for the Global Teacher Prize from the Varkey Foundation, protests grew and spread to other schools in the area. Following continuing protests, the programme was temporarily halted in March 2019 at these schools and Parkfield whilst a resolution with parents and guardians was sought. Moffat, as an openly gay staff member, was advised by the police to do a risk assessment of his travel arrangements from school.

Following 5 months of consultation the programme restarted in September 2019, entitled "No Outsiders for a Faith Community", and included year group consultations with parents in advance of the lessons starting. Despite Ofsted having assessed the programme as age-appropriate, objections from some parents, and calls for him to be dismissed, continued.

In 2019 Birmingham City Council applied to the High Court for an injunction to create an exclusion zone to protect the schools from organised protests following an investigation by the Commission for Countering Extremism which revealed the protests had been taken over by Hizb ut-Tahir and other pro-Islamist groups, unconnected to either school, with a specific aim to “entrench social division” and “amplify hate” against LGBT people. The judge, Justice Warby upheld a permanent exclusion to the groups and stated they had deliberately “grossly misinterpreted” the programme by suggesting it promoted paedophilia which was not true."

As of 2019, Moffat is CEO of No Outsiders, a charity which describes its mission, "No Outsiders prepares young people and adults for life as global citizens, reducing potential for terrorism and promoting community cohesion."

In May 2019 Moffat led Birmingham Pride along with LGBT Muslims Saima Razzaq and Khakan Qureshi.

Moffat also speaks as a children's rights communicator and has presented at Humanists UK 2019 convention and the 2019 Blackham lecture with Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson.

In 2017 Moffat was given an MBE "for services to equality and diversity in education".

In 2016, Parkfield school, where he was at the time assistant head teacher, was rated as "outstanding" by Ofsted, and particular mention given to "the provision for pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is a strength and permeates the school’s work. This is an inclusive school that celebrates diversity." Moffat also has responsibility for pastoral care of pupils and teachers within the school.

While teaching a series of lessons about tolerance for people of different sexual orientations in 2014, the school received a complaint from a "Christian parent" objecting to the material and content of the lessons. There followed a meeting with 40 parents, mostly Christian and Muslim, at which some parents reportedly complained they were not happy that their children "learn that it’s OK to be gay". As a result of the meeting Moffat resigned. In a statement the school said, "The...objections were primarily voiced by those whose own religion took an opposing stance to homosexuality." Moffat has stated that the objections surfaced after he came out publicly as gay in a school assembly.

Moffat began to design the No Outsiders programme of learning prior to becoming assistant head teacher at Parkfield Community School, an academy school in Birmingham, UK. The programme addresses issues of inclusion, and covers topics which are protected by the 2010 Equality Act, including religion or belief system, race, gender identity and sexual orientation. Age-appropriate books are used as part of the programme to illustrate key concepts, such as Odd Dog Out by Children's Book Prize winner Rob Biddulph which covers inclusion, Stonewall Book Award winner Julián Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love which looks at diversity and gender roles, and And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson which looks at same-sex marriage and parenting.

Early in his career Moffat worked with challenging youths in the West Midlands including those involved in gang culture. He worked as a teacher and schools advisor in several schools before becoming an assistant head teacher at a Birmingham primary school, Chilworth Croft Academy in 2009. Moffat was also responsible for training primary school teachers on how to manage homophobic bullying using resources some of which he had written while a teacher, including Challenging Homophobia In Primary Schools: An early years resource (2007), later published as Challenging Homophobia In Primary Schools (CHIPS) (2012).

Moffat attended John Willmott School, Sutton Coldfield, until 1988 and Josiah Mason College until 1990. He received a BA in English with drama and American Studies from the University of Derby in 1993, followed by a Postgraduate Certificate in Education, also from Derby. He was later awarded an MA in emotional and behavioural difficulties from the University of Birmingham. As of 2019 he is studying for a PhD entitled The role of schools in reducing potential for radicalisation.

Andrew Moffat MBE (born 1972) is a British teacher at Parkfield Community School in Birmingham and the author of several books and educational resources including the No Outsiders programme, an approach to teaching primary school-aged children about diversity and tolerance for which he was nominated for the Global Teacher Prize. His programme has attracted protest on religious grounds and was briefly halted in 2019 before being reinstated. Moffat was awarded an MBE in 2017 for services to equality in education.