Equality Vision

Thorngumbald Primary School is committed to providing the best possible education to all pupils irrespective of their ability, ethnicity, religion, or social background. Our school will support an environment that provides pupils with a fulfilling and rewarding journey that allows them to thrive and progress effectively into secondary education.

 

We want our pupils to be happy; we will take appropriate action and provide the tools to maintain the physical and emotional wellbeing of our pupils and staff.

 

We respect our environment and our local community and recognise the role primary education can play in forming how our future world may look.

 

Through transparent collaboration with key stakeholders, we will listen to informed opinion and adopt best practice to improve standards and become an “Outstanding School”.

Following the introduction of the Equality Act 2010, the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED), came into force in April 2011.  The PSED sets out the requirements for all public bodies when carrying out their day to day work and has two main parts:

 

 The ‘General’ Equality Duty

 

 The General Duty requires Thorngumbald Primary to have ‘due regard’, or think about the need to:

  • Eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation and any other conduct prohibited by the Act.
  • Advance equality of opportunity between people who share a protected characteristic and people who do not share it.
  • Foster good relations across all characteristics between people who share a protected characteristic and people who do not share it.

 

All staff are responsible for having due regard for the three General Equality aims.

 

The Act explains that having due regard for advancing equality involves:

  • Removing or minimising disadvantages suffered by people due to their protected characteristics.
  • Taking steps to meet the needs of people from protected groups where these are different from the needs of other people.
  • Encouraging people from protected groups to participate in public life or in other activities where their participation is disproportionately low.

Details of how Thorngumbald Primary is working with due regard to the general equality duty aims are outlined in the policy.

 

The ‘Specific Duties’

 

 The ‘Specific Duties’ require Thorngumbald Primary to do the following:

  • Publish information annually to show compliance with the General Equality Duty.
  • Prepare and publish one or more specific and measurable equality objectives at least once every four years and publish an update on progress towards these objectives annually.

 

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