Spotlight on training – Unconscious Bias, Culture and Respect

Do tutors understand the impact of unconscious bias on teaching and learning? Do all staff realise that promoting British values must involve tackling unconscious bias if they are to help prepare learners thoroughly for life in Britain’s complex, multicultural society? Do leaders appreciate the ‘bystander effect’ which can prevent the effective tackling of discriminatory attitudes and behaviours? What training have you proved?

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Outstanding practice in Equality, Diversity and British Values in WorkPlace Learning - Dates for your diaries

What's the event about? For many providers, apprenticeships is a growth area, yet they often ‘behind’ in integrating and promoting E&D and British values when comparing workplace to classroom-based learning. This workshop focuses specifically on workplace learning. It explores all areas of the learner journey, for example IAG, sign up (enrolment), induction, performance analysis, assessment visits and progress reviews. It explains how assessors and other staff involved in workplace learning can genuinely raise awareness and promote E&D and British values, rather than take a tokenistic or ‘tick-box’ approach.

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Tackling Hate Crime

Do you agree that the defining characteristic of hate crime is not actually hate, but prejudice? Did you know that last year, 70,000 incidents of hate crime were reported to police, the highest ever recorded, and this is only a fraction of the number of incidents that actually took place? Are your staff aware of the scale of this problem and the likely impact in your organisation? How are you using opportunities for students to explore hate crime?

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Delivering the Prevent duty in a proportionate and fair way

Are you concerned that actions taken to comply with the Prevent duty could pose risks to your requirement to give ‘due regard’ to advancing equality, tackling prejudice and fostering good relations, the three aims or the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED)? Have you assessed the impact of your Prevent policies, practices and action plan against the requirements of the PSED? Did you know that new guidance explains how you might go about this?

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Dates for your diaries

Actively promoting equality, diversity and British values is an essential part of your journey to outstanding and beyond – to be the ‘best of the best’. Ofsted expect outstanding colleges to place the promotion of British values ‘at the heart’ of all that they do, which means taking a whole-college approach to this agenda. By popular demand, I am delivering an intensive, interactive national workshop on ‘Outstanding practice in promoting British values, taking a whole-college approach’.

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