Equality

Equality Duty

The Equality Act 2010 was passed by Parliament to promote equality.  It applies to all organisations, including schools.  As a result our school needs to ensure it is treating all pupils, staff, parents, governors, volunteers and visitors without discrimination in respect of factors specified by the Act.  These are:

• Age
• Disability
• Ethnicity and race
• Gender
• Gender identity and reassignment
• Marriage and civil partnership
• Pregnancy, maternity and breast-feeding
• Sexual orientation

What St. Joseph’s School has to do?

Our responsibility is to ensure that everyone who attends, works in or visits our school is treated equally.

We need to plan the strategies and policies required by the Equalities Act for the benefit of the whole school community. 

Aim: To meet the key principles of the 2010 equality act and our Christian responsibility by having measurable objectives that span four years.  

Objective:  The school currently employ staff from a predominantly white British background. The children would benefit from being taught by a more racially diverse staff. Children should have opportunity to be taught by adults who look like them. 5% of children at St Joseph’s School are BAME, including white other. The staff body is exclusively ethnically white. Engage in new strategies such as unconscious bias training, anonymised forms, 

-Consider using Black, Asian and racially minoritised recruiters and advertising companies in order to diversify the staff workforce.

Look for opportunities to reach out to student teachers where there may be more students who are from Black, Asian or racially minoritised groups  

Aim: To characterise pupils without using protected characteristics.

Objective: To enhance the teaching materials we use across the school to represent a diverse society. In reviewing new reading, artists, authors and images used in lessons, we will ensure that we choose examples that are reflective of a diverse society and, in particular, of our own community.

Objective: to ensure the school actively promotes and prioritises raising awareness, appreciation and celebration of diversity including gender, sexuality, race and religion.

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DFE Guidance

Aim: Ensure that emotional wellbeing of our children and staff is an intrinsic part of the education offered at Appleton, ensuring all achieve across the curriculum?

Objective: Wellbeing leader training to be attended by the a member of staff. Upskilling and providing additional support to the school. Thus enabling the member of staff to develop a wellbeing team that is able to support the wellbeing needs of staff and pupils across the school.