Anti-racism resource hub: how to work towards racial justice in your school

Use our whole-school anti-racism audit tool to reflect on how inclusive your school is now, and take your first steps towards making improvements

If your community is resistant, or not very diverse, find out how to get staff and parents on board

Set up a working group of staff and parents to inform and improve your approach

Use our action planning template to set meaningful objectives that will help you improve the experiences of pupils and parents who are Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME)

Use our curriculum review tools (primary/secondary) to re-frame your curriculum, embed diversity in your curriculum and celebrate diversity all year round

Share our reading lists for staff, so your team fully understands the issues

Improve diversity in children’s books in your school library and classrooms

Learn how to talk to pupils about race, racism and the Black Lives Matter movement

Find out how to provide pupils with ‘cultural capital’ that values diversity and celebrates all cultures

Analyse your data to identify whether any groups of pupils are receiving a disproportionate number of behaviour sanctions

Carry out behaviour audit to find out whether your staff and pupils feel that the behaviour policy puts pupils who are BAME at a disadvantage

Review your behaviour policy with a focus on inclusion

Learn how to reduce unconscious bias in your recruitment process

Although 'anti-racism' as a term is used in a range of ways, we use it in our resources to mean "the policy or practice of opposing racism and promoting racial equality".

We use 'BAME' (black, Asian or minority ethnic) throughout these articles as a succinct way to refer to the many ethnic minority groups in England. However, we recognise that some people aren’t comfortable with this term.

When talking about this topic in your school we'd encourage you to think about what will work best in your own context (other widely used terms include "ethnic minorities" and "people of colour"). Individuals should always be referred to according to their own ethnicity, rather than grouped in this way.

These articles refer to diversity in relation to race. You can, and should, apply similar principles to improve diversity terms of gender, disability and sexual orientation.

A note on terminology

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