Public Sector Equality Duty

The Public Sector Equality Duty requires public bodies and others carrying out public functions to have due regard to the need to eliminate discrimination, to advance equality of opportunities and foster good relations. This ensures that public bodies consider the needs of all individuals in their day to day work - in shaping policy, in delivering services, and in relation to their own employees. The duty applies to all nine areas of discrimination listed in the Equality Act 2010.

age
disability
gender reassignment
pregnancy and maternity
race
religion or belief
sex
sexual orientation
marriage and civil partnership

Note: For marriage and civil partnership, the PSED only requires employers to have due regard to the need to eliminate unlawful discrimination.

We have looked closely at data within our school and have identified the following areas for improvement:

Objective	Which group(s) with protected characteristics will this benefit/	Actions and who will be involved?	Timescale	Which general duty/ies will it address?	How will we measure our success?
To promote cultural development and understanding through a rich range of experience, both in and beyond the school	Disability, Gender, Race, Religion or belief, Sexual orientation, Gender reassignment,	Programme of visits to include places of worship and larger towns and cities Programme of visitors organised for assemblies to share different faiths and cultures Senior Leadership Team, RE subject leader,	Visit and visitors programme ongoing Termly visitors	Eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation and other conduct prohibited by the Act.	Pupils in the school will have a wider experience of a divergent society Children understand that they are part of a multi- faith society and learn the values of other religions
To ensure that all pupils are given similar opportunities with regards to after-school clubs and activities	Disability, Gender, Race, Religion or belief,	Analysis of register of attendance. Parents and pupil questionnaire. Heads of school, PE co-ordinator	Parent questionnaire – summer term 2020 Re-visit questionnaire annually Summer term.	Advance equality of opportunity between people who share protected characteristics and those who do not	Increase of attendance to after-school clubs. All disadvantaged and bus children attend at least one club or activity during the year.
Actively close gaps in attainment and achievement between pupils and all groups of pupils; especially students eligible for free-school meals, students with special educational needs and disabilities and looked after children	Disability, Gender, Race,	Modify provision in order to meet all children’s needs and interests. Introduce quality first teaching strategies and resources in all classes for SLCN Improve parental engagement by coming into school and being part of the learning experience Class teachers, SENCo, parents	Ongoing – see SIP	Advance equality of opportunity between people who share protected characteristics and those who do not	Progress for these pupils will be in line with those of their peers.

(Due to the small number of pupils at our school, we will not publish the data as evidence as individuals may be identified, but is available for OFSTED inspection)