Equality & Diversity
The latest news and advice on equality and diversity in the classroom and the workforce. Find tips for inclusive practice and guidance on equal pay and conditions
Thursday
20th Mar 2025
COBIS refreshes accreditation standards with DEIJB focus
Organisation also offers more clarity to schools on what they should provide in submissions as part of update
How we developed a place-based approach to community work
When the charity AllChild expanded from West London to Wigan, it had to adapt to best serve a different community. CEO Louisa Mitchell explains how they did it
Thursday
13th Mar 2025
What DSLs need to know about race, racism and safeguarding
The Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel’s latest report on how children from Black, Asian and Mixed Heritage backgrounds experience safeguarding processes contains vital insights for leaders, says Luke Ramsden
Why Ofsted isn’t serving disadvantaged children
The new scorecard and toolkits do a better job of recognising socioeconomic diversity, but there are still barriers to inclusion, argues Sutton Trust’s Charlotte O’Regan
Wednesday
12th Mar 2025
Gilruth: Attainment Challenge cash ‘plugging gaps in welfare state’
The power of the Scottish Attainment Challenge in closing the disadvantage gap in education has been ‘eroded’, says the education secretary, as she comes under fire
How we built a local school ecosystem to drive improvement
The Ealing Learning Partnership has led to numerous successes for schools in one of London’s most diverse and complex boroughs. Its founders explain how
Friday
7th Mar 2025
EIS launches book to help young new arrivals to Scotland
The teaching union’s story book is aimed at supporting young children who are new to Scotland to settle in at school
What a recent High Court case ruling means for school exclusions
Court judgement potentially has major implications for how discrimination and human rights claims could be made by those challenging exclusion decisions, a lawyer explains
Thursday
27th Feb 2025
Swinney grilled over attainment gap and ASL
The SNP’s mission to close the disadvantage-related attainment gap has become a ‘defining failure’, Scottish Labour leader tells first minister
Audit Scotland publishes ‘damning’ report on support for ASN pupils
There’s an ‘urgent need for improvement’, says the watchdog – as it questions whether schools can cope with the almost eight-fold increase in additional support needs pupils