Celebrating Diversity
Blaenau Gwent is a changing area, which respects and celebrates its increasing
diversity. We aim to improve the lives of everyone who lives or visits here by
developing mutual respect within our communities. Blaenau Gwent County
Borough Council is committed to being an employer of choice to people
who embrace diversity. We fully appreciate that people who
can be themselves are more likely to be
satisfied and committed to their work.
CYMRU
HYRWYDDWRADDYSG
EDUCATION CHAMPION
Mae Cyngor Sir Gâr yn gyflogwr cyfle cyfartal, sydd â pholisïau a
gweithdrefnau recriwtio mewn lle i sicrhau na wahaniaethir yn erbyn
unrhyw unigolyn. Mae ystod o gyfleoedd yn cynnwys swyddi dysgu, gofal
cymdeithasol, iechyd yr amgylchedd, chwaraeon a chynllunio.
Rydym yn falch o fod yn rhan o Gynllun Amrywiaeth Addysg
Stonewall Cymru ac i gefnogi’r rhifyn arbennig hwn.
Carmarthenshire County Council is an equal opportunities employer
and has recruitment policies in place to ensure that no person will be
discriminated against. There are a wide range of careers ranging from
teaching, social care, environmental health, sports and planning.
We are proud to be part of the Stonewall Education Champions and to
support this special edition.
Tackling Homophobic Bullying
in Schools
As we reported last year, since 2012, Caerphilly county borough council has
worked with schools to develop better monitoring and better support for
pupils and teachers in dealing with homophobic bullying. The most recent
report on this work around all forms of discriminatory bullying was published
in January 2015 an can be found online at
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Update reports on discriminatory
bullying are also presented to
elected members through the
Education for Life Scrutiny
Committee, and to the
Community Cohesion Forum
as part of the reporting on all
hate crime and incidents in the
county borough.
Developing discriminatory
bullying monitoring to cover 10
areas of pupil identity including
homophobic bullying has meant
that the Council now has
recorded data on homophobic
incidents in schools.
Since the trial term in 2012,
there are now three full
academic years’ worth of data
to be able to identify patterns,
trends and target support at any
schools where there seems to
be ongoing problems. From the
current academic year onwards,
the categories will be expanded
to included biphobic bullying.
There are 97 education
establishments that provide
monitoring data to the
Directorate of Education and
the summary of the reported
homophobic data across the
10 school terms is shown in
the following table; the latest
academic year is highlighted.
or
Summer
Term
2012
(pilot
term)
Autumn
Term
2012
Spring
Term
2013
Summer
Term
2013
Autumn
Term
2013
Spring
Term
2014
Summer
Term
2014
Autumn
Term
2014
Spring
Term
2015
Summer
Term
2015
7
2
1
2
3
5
1
7
12
8
Since the report in 2013,
the Council began providing
training sessions in schools
using the “Homophobia: Let’s
Tackle It” educational resource,
delivered by Show Racism the
Red Card. The last academic
year’s data shows a rise in the
number of reported incidents to
27 across the 3 terms, the highest
number recorded so far in one
school year.
It would be heartening to believe
that the increase in numbers
is due to better recording and
better awareness in schools and
that this jump in reports has
come about due to the training
the partners provided the year
before, rather than there being
more incidents occurring.
There is always more work to
do of course, but the Council is
pleased that our ongoing efforts
to tackle homophobic bullying
and raise awareness of the issues
continues to show progress.
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