Schools - addressing racism and racist incidents: guidance
This guidance has been designed to assist schools to develop and implement a consistent and robust approach to addressing racist incidents experienced or displayed by children and young people in school.
Monitoring and Evaluating
It is important that schools regularly evaluate their approach to responding to racism.
Establishing prevalence of racist incidents is the first step in evaluating progress. Quantitative evidence of decreasing prevalence may not be seen in the shorter term, and schools engaging in improvement work in this area may initially find an increase in recording. This can reflect an increased confidence in reporting and an improvement in racial literacy amongst staff. Progress monitoring should include both quantitative indicators and qualitative methods such as focus groups with children and young people, families, and staff. For further information, please see Respect for All pages 38-9.