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

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 5: Under reporting

Section 6: Racist incidents involving staff and other adults

Section 7: Promoting race equality through the curriculum

Section 8: Appendices

Training for school workforce and governors will be available from September 2008 and details will appear on this website, the Schools Information Website and the School Workforce Development Programme.

Further enquiries should be made to Jane Walker.