Equality Information and Objectives

Equality

Fordbridge Community Primary School is proud to be a fully inclusive school where everyone is welcome and encouraged to be the best they can be. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity for all our pupils, parents and staff. We make sure that we consider equality and the possible implications for all pupils and especially those with protected characteristics.

We are very proud to share in June 2025 we received out Silver Equalities Award.

The Equalities Award audit has been designed by a team of equality and education experts to allow schools to fulfil their statutory duties to:

• Eliminate discrimination, advance equality of opportunity, and foster good relations (Equality Act 2010)
• Promote community cohesion (Education and Inspections Act 2006)
• Prevent people from being drawn into terrorism (Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015)
• Safeguard children and promote spiritual moral, social and cultural development (Education Act 2002)

We expect all members of our community and everyone who enters our school to behave in a way which respects the protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010.

Fordbridge  School is committed to ensuring equality of provision throughout the school community. To achieve this, our equality objectives (2023-2026) are as follows:

Objective 1: To ensure that the school promotes role models that young people positively identify with, who reflect and broaden the school’s diversity in terms of race, gender and other protected characteristics.

Objective 2: To raise equality awareness with pupils and staff, ensuring tolerance and respect towards individuals who identify with any of the protected characteristics.

Objective 3:To train all members of staff and govenors that are involved in recruitment and selection,  on equal opportunities and non-discrimination