Equality and Diversity

Mayfield School is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. 

Our school aims to meet its obligations under the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) by having due regard to the need to: 

 

  • Eliminate discrimination and other conduct that is prohibited by the Equality Act 2010 
  • 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  
  • Ensure our workforce is truly representative of all sections of society and our customers, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. 
  • Ensure our school - in providing goods and/or services and/or facilities - is also committed against unlawful discrimination of customers or the public. 

 

Equality Objectives 

Objective 1 

Promote a culture of racial equity and a celebration of diversity through a curriculum which is planned to represent our community, educate our students about equality and celebrates diversity. Furthermore, ensure that high quality Personal Development provision is in place which enhances the curriculum and enriches students’ wider understanding of diversity and sexuality. 

 

Objective 2 

To eradicate the use of homophobic, sexist, racist and other discriminative language by students in the school through the promotion of an ethos which does not tolerate sexual harassment and the use of derogatory terminology with a behaviour system that gives all staff a framework to consistently challenge all discriminatory language and behaviour.

 

Objective 3 

Staff training on Equality and the implementation of the equalities policy is regularly planned for and is part of the induction for all new staff. This includes ensuring that Guidelines for discussion are in place to ensure that teachers do not enable hate speech and that it is corrected or dealt with appropriately.

  

Objective 4 

Set challenging goals for the recruitment of a diverse staff and governing body based on the protected characteristics after analysis of recruitment data and trends. Report on this to the staffing and pay sub-committee of the governing board, review the analysis and increase the representation of teachers from local Black and minority ethnic communities over a 4-year period (from this July to July in 4 years' time), so that this group increases from 10% to 25% of the teaching workforce. 

The aim of the above objectives is to ensure that: 

 

  • Prejudice is always challenged; 
  • Tolerance is always promoted; 
  • Cultural appreciation is always shared; 
  • And that Mayfield is seen as a beacon school with respect to equality, diversity and inclusion.” 

 

Equality Diversity Inclusion information and objectives policy

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