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Past Work 2004-2005
CERES worked with eight local authority education services to explore how race equality was being embedded into the work of schools education. In particular, this work focussed on how education authorities were assisting mainstream race equality into school development plans, quality assurance and improvement frameworks. CERES associate Alan Bell produced a Phase 1 report of this work.
Following on from this report, CERES worked with education authority personnel to take forward learning points from the report. In particular, the focus was on evaluating the effectiveness of education authority strategies on promoting race equality and consideration of how quality assurance/impact assessments are most effectively employed in promoting race equality. 15 of the 32 authorities took part in this exercise and their views can be read in the Phase 2 report.
CERES also began work to develop a national picture on how racist incidents are recorded, monitored and used to develop anti-racist practice within education authorities. A report of this piece of work was produced in February 2005.
In 2004, CERES began work with developing an anti-sectarian web resource for teachers and schools for the then Scottish Executive. This work was jointly developed with the then Scottish Human Rights Centre and Nil by Mouth. This resource ‘Don’t Give it, Don’t Take it’ is now part of the Learning and Teaching Scotland site.
CERES continued to respond to requests from practitioners in the field and from pupils. CERES continued to respond to Government consultations(see Archive section on this site) and supported the Race Relations Act Officers Network which it established in 2003.
However, a major loss for CERES was the valuable Resource Centre which provided a useful library for teachers, students, researchers interested in race equality. The funding terminated in March 2005 and the Resource Centre was closed from February 1st 2005 for a final stock take. A small selection of items which are popular and frequently borrowed will continue to be available for loan by contacting ceres@ed.ac.uk