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Mark Walker made this Freedom of Information request to Bromley Borough Council
The request was successful.
From: Mark Walker
3 December 2009
Dear Sir or Madam,
By letter of 30 September 2009, The Secretary of State Ed Balls
appointed Maurice Smith to enquire into the "promotion of racism in
schools". Part of the review is aimed at determining whether
members of the British National Party (BNP) should be allowed to
work as teachers or in the wider school workforce.
At present there are a number of measures and safeguards in place
in place to protect children and young people in schools from
racially motivated discrimination and the promotion of political
doctrines that advocate discrimination and promote racist views.
These are:
• The requirement on schools to have equal opportunity policies
• The duty upon schools to promote racial equality
• Their duty to promote community cohesion
• The duty on governing bodies, headteachers and local authorities
to forbid the teaching of partisan political activities in schools
• The powers of the GTC (England) regarding suitability of
registration and where teacher conduct could bring the profession
into disrepute
I would like you to provide me with evidence of how effective these
measures are including whether they are sufficient to maintain
trust in the profession and protect children and young people.
Please provide the following information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.
1) What evidence is there that schools’ equal opportunity policies
are effective in combating racism?
2) What are schools in your area doing to promote racial equality
and promote community cohesion? Examples of measures deemed to be
good practice and recognised as being successful would be useful.
3) Can you provide me with any evidence that the measures listed
above have been effective (if this has not already been done)?
4) Are further measures required to either maintain trust in the
teaching profession or protect children and young people?
Yours sincerely
Mark Walker
Solidarity Trade Union
www.solidaritytradeunion.org
From: Coulston, Jackie
Bromley Borough Council
3 December 2009
Thank you for your request for information which I received on 3 December. Your request is now receiving attention and you should hear from the council within 20 working days of receipt.
Sometimes a fee is payable if it is estimated that a request will take a council officer more than 18 hours to locate and copy the information and to send it out. If that is the case, I will let you know and a fees notice will be sent to you. You will then have to pay before we can proceed to deal with your request.
Please contact me if you have any concerns.
Best wishes
Jackie Coulston (Mrs)
Information Coordinator
Legal, Democratic and Customer Services
Tel: 020 8313 4316
(Tues-Thurs 8am-4.30pm)
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From: Haskey, Val
Bromley Borough Council
5 January 2010
I attach our response to your recent request for information and I apologise for the slight delay in responding to you.
Ofsted inspect schools to determine, among other things, the impact of the school's policies and procedures, including racism. This aspect comes under care, guidance, support and Bromley schools are judged to be high in this performance. Overall, there are 50 Outstanding or Good with outstanding features schools; 20 Good and 23 Satisfactory. The behaviour aspect of judgements is usually graded good or above.
Anti-racism procedures are approved by Governors and this has raised the awareness of its importance. They are monitored each term by Governors.
All schools have community cohesion policies and plans which are approved by Governors and inspected during an Ofsted. There have been no schools who failed to produce this and the judgements support their effectiveness.
A web-based system has been introduced to enable schools to monitor racist incidents. Any such incidents are reported annually to the Children and Young People Portfolio Holder.
Val Haskey
FOI Co-ordinator
Children and Young People
[email address]
020 8313 4146
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