The Diana Award has formed a coalition of organisations representing young people’s voices, including Everyday Racism, The Centre for Mental Health, Not So Micro, The Black Curriculum, UK Youth and The African Caribbean Education Network.
Together we’re asking the Prime Minister to #TakeRacismSeriously and calling for a change in how we support young people impacted by racism.
Racism is holding all young people back. There is longstanding evidence of the harmful outcomes caused by bias and a lack of racially inclusive practice, and we are calling for urgent action to address the impacts of this growing crisis, acknowledging the evidenced structural outcomes.
1. For the review of the national curriculum to take an explicit anti-racism focus and to include Black history as a compulsory subject.
2. For the upcoming Race Equality Act to require schools to have an action plan for addressing race inequality alongside their enhanced collection and reporting of ethnicity and race data.
3. For racism to be recognised by the Department of Education as an explicit safeguarding issue and included in mandatory school staff training.
4. For anti-racism guidance to be published for schools and colleges, including how to respond to peer-to-peer racism, mental health effects of racism and racial trauma.
Join us in calling on the Labour Government to change how we support young people affected impacted by racism. Sign our #TakeRacismSeriously Open Letter now!
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