BNP Teachers

Mark Walker made this Freedom of Information request to Lincolnshire County Council

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From: Mark Walker

29 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

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From: Infomgt
Lincolnshire County Council

30 December 2009

Dear Mr Walker

Freedom of Information Reference: 08348FOI

Subject: Request for information regarding "Promotion of racism in
schools" - BNP members allowed to work as teachers

Thank you for your recent request for information received by this office
on 29 December 2009. Your request is being dealt with under the terms of
the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

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Dear Mark Walker

FOI Number: 08348

Subject: BNP Teachers

Thank-you for your request for information from Lincolnshire County
Council, we are pleased to provide the following answers to your
questions.

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?

A. Lincolnshire County Council, School Services has no research findings
relating to these questions. The only information we can provide are
reports of racist incidents in schools, quarterly figures for the last 2
years. No analysis has been done of the effectiveness of schools'
policies. We can tell you that over the past year OFSTED have been
requiring schools to produce their Racist incident records and their
policies. This might be the reason for any increase in incident reporting,
as well as greater awareness and incidents due to the migration of more
foreign nationals to Lincolnshire. The attached data is the only data we
have collected.

With regards to the Community Cohesion the Inclusion and EMAS (Ethnic
Minority Achievement Support) have done a piece of work on Ofsted
requirements which may help. Please see attached document.

We have also attached all Lincolnshire's schools contact details to help
you in your reseach.

We believe that this answers your request in full, if however you believe
that we have not fully answered or addressed all the questions you have
asked please re-contact us at the address above.

Once again thank-you for your request.

Yours Sincerely

Children's Services

Lincolnshire County Council

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