Introduction to the Toolkits

All schools are now required by law to meet significant positive statutory duties in the areas of Race, Disability and Gender.  These Duties are:-

• The Duty to Promote Race Equality (part of the Race Relations Amendment Act 2000)

• The Duty to Promote Disability Equality (part of the Disability Discrimination Act 2005)

• The Gender Equality Duty (part of the Equality Act 2006)

In order to meet these Duties, schools are required to:-

• produce and deliver equality action plans in respect of all three Duties (i.e. equality action plans will be a part of your Race Equality Policy,  Disability Equality Scheme and Gender Equality Scheme); and

• conduct Equality Impact Assessments with regard to all school functions (i.e. your policies, procedures and practices).

The Equality Duties Toolkits for Schools

We have used our wealth of experience of working in the Equality and Diversity field within the education sector to produce The Equality Duties Toolkits for Schools.  These Toolkits offer comprehensive and practical guidance and support for schools and come in the form of two interactive CD-ROMs:-

CD-ROM 1:  Developing Equality Schemes: A Practical Toolkit for Schools

This practical Toolkit sets out the key requirements of the Equality Duties and provides a step-by-step process for schools on exactly how to produce their Equality Schemes.  This is a comprehensive Toolkit which provides a full compliment of templates, planning guidance and practical resources that schools can use to plan, develop, produce and manage their Equality Schemes on an ongoing basis.




CD-ROM 2:  The Equality Impact Assessment (EIA) Toolkit for Schools

This Toolkit sets out the entire process of conducting Equality Impact Assessments (EIAs) clearly and simply.  It is a comprehensive and step-by-step guide that schools can use to implement and manage the entire Equality Impact Assessment process on an ongoing basis.

Both CD-ROMs offer practical guidance and provide a full range of templates that you can save to your school’s own computer systems and PCs.  The CD-ROMs enable you to use the templates provided to ensure that you effectively manage and deliver the requirements of the Equality Duties in your school.

1. Save you the significant amount of time it would otherwise take to devise your school’s own processes for developing your Equality Schemes and conducting EIAs. 

1. Enable you to simply and effectively manage the whole Equality Schemes development process and the EIA process from start to finish.

1. Provide you with a comprehensive set of resources which guide you step-by-step through the entire process of responding to the Equality Duties, offering practical, clear and comprehensive advice. 

1. Provide you with a full compliment of templates and guidance to use within your own school.

1. Allow you to save and use the provided templates and guidance to your own school’s intranet or as many PCs as you require.  

1. Provide you with an ongoing online support facility enabling you to ask us your own specific questions regarding any aspect of the Equality Duties – you will receive personal responses to every question you raise.

1. Provide you with an online forum for finding out what other schools are doing in this area. 

1. Allow you to use the resources provided with as many staff and governors as you wish.

Note:  We are also able to offer training workshops for your staff and governors covering the Equality Duties.

If you would like to discuss the Equality Duties and/or the Toolkits in detail, please do not hesitate to contact us – we will be most happy to discuss the issues with you.  This is a service provided free of charge and with no obligation.

Daniel Wood Chartered FCIPD, Daniel Wood Associates, 1 Cottonwood Drive, Longwell Green, Bristol. BS30 9UF. 
Tel. 0117 9323826; email.