By Rachel Elgy: rachel@equaliteach.co.uk In March every year, the world celebrates International Women’s Day, recognising the small steps, great leaps and onward journeys towards gender equality, highlighting role models, and renewing commitments to the cause. In our globalised world, movements […]
Inclusion
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By Georgina Manning: georgina@equaliteach.co.uk Recently I took my daughter to see ‘In Conversation: Queer Perspectives’ at the National Portrait Gallery. Queer Perspectives is a quarterly event hosted by resident artist Sadie Lee, where she invites guests who identify as LGBTQI […]
By Sheza Afzal: sheza@equaliteach.co.uk Parents are Protesting Recent media attention has highlighted parents’ protests outside schools last term, with the biggest demonstration at Anderton Park primary school in Birmingham. An estimated 200 protesters picketed at the school gates, holding banners and […]
he past decade has seen many huge advances in the fight for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT+) equality in the UK...However, the path to equality doesn’t run smooth, and recent events have shown that there is no place for complacency, that victories won are not necessarily assured forever and there is still a long way to go.
Trans issues have never been more at the forefront of public discussion than over the past month. The government’s consultation into the Gender Recognition Act has just closed and, as the deadline got closer, anti-trans activists stepped up their campaign […]
I was a couple of months off sitting my A levels when I was diagnosed with dyslexia. Despite some obvious indicators throughout my schooling and a conversation with a teacher, who admitted the possibility of my having dyslexia had crossed […]
by Kate Hollinshead: kate@equaliteach.co.uk “Banning the hijab will help school girls integrate into British society and limit the Islamisation process.” “Banning the hijab will undermine the British Values of individual liberty and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.” […]
By Sarah: sarah@equaliteach.co.uk “There’s just so much news at the moment, my head is going to explode!” – a recent comment from a year 6 girl I was working with, and she’s not alone. Whether it’s the Grenfell fire, Brexit, […]
By Kate: kate@equaliteach.co.uk On Thursday 12th January, the BBC aired what they called a ‘balanced documentary’ entitled ‘Transgender Kids: Who knows best?’ According to the BBC website, the programme’s aim was to scrutinise the new ‘gender affirmative approach’ to […]
It is without doubt that we all grow up in a society which, either consciously through our birth certificate or passport documentation, or subconsciously through the marketing of gender-specific toys and clothes, coerces us into identifying strictly as a female […]
On 6th September the long anticipated review of the public sector equality duty (PSED) was published. The review was commissioned by the government as part of the “Red Tape Challenge” with the objectives of assessing whether the PSED was achieving […]
The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 has repealed provisions within the Equality Act 2010 which make employers liable for the harassment of their staff by third parties. Currently, employers are required to take reasonably practicable steps to prevent the […]