Racist incidents
Since 2002 all schools must have a written Race Equality Policy to comply with the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000. As part of the general duty of this legislation schools are required to comply with Local Authority procedures for recording, reporting and responding to racist incidents.
This area of the website sets out Northumberland Local Authority's revised procedure with accompanying guidance. Schools must ensure that they follow the procedure, set out in section 2 from September 2008, and have in place effective measures to respond to racist incidents when they occur.
The contents of the following pages are available to download as one guidance document here.
Form 1: Reporting an individual incident to the Local Authority
Form 2: Annual report to Governors of racist incidents in school
A leaflet summarising this information is available to download and print here.
Section 1: Statement of principle
Section 2: How to record and report a racist incident
Section 3: Suggested strategies for dealing with racist incidents
Section 4: Guidance on evaluating racist incident returns and self evaluation
Section 6: Racist incidents involving staff and other adults
Further enquiries should be made to Jane Walker.
