Equality Statement
At Our Lady Immaculate Primary School we welcome our duties under the Equality Act 2010, and in particular our duties in regard to the Public Sector Equality Duty-to eliminate discrimination, advance equality of opportunity and to foster good relations.
We are also fully committed to meeting our responsibilities in regards to The Prevent Strategy, Promoting British Values, Child Sex Exploitation, Young Carers, and any other Government backed equality initiatives. Our aim is to provide a framework that supports our commitment to valuing diversity, tackling discrimination, promoting equality and fostering good relationships between different groups of people. It is also intended to help tackle issues of disadvantage and underachievement of different groups.
As such, we recognise that the whole school community working together, encouraging strong, positive relationships between pupils, staff, parents, governors and other school stakeholders helps to provide the best education and life experiences for all our pupils. In line with our responsibilities under the Public Sector Equality Duty arising from the Equality Act 2010, Below are our Equality Objectives for the next four years; which we intend to evaluate annually. We shall also publish information regarding our compliance to the Public Sector Equality Duty. Please contact Mrs. Sergeant should you require any further information regarding the school’s equality and diversity policies and procedures.
Our equality objectives 2023-27
Objective 1- To promote greater understanding of neurodiversity issues
Objective 2- To reduce prejudice based language
Objective 3- To promote greater understanding of LGBTQ+ issues