Education

Fatima Mohamed Ali (Chair)

Margaret Simmons-Bird

Marie-Annick Gournet

The education task and finish group aim to address race disparity within the city relating to Education to be achieved by focusing on the following key priorities:

Academic Achievement

• Understand the extent of underachievement of Black and Minoritised learners

• Challenge the persistent underachievement of Black and Minoritised learners 

Special Educational Needs & Disabilities

• Review the proportion of Black and Minoritised learners identified with special education needs, placed in specialist and/or Alternative Learning Provision

School Exclusions

• Challenge the over-representation of Black and Minoritised learners in BCC exclusion data

Curriculum

• Promote and encourage schools to develop and implement a ‘place base’/decolonised curriculum

Representation

• Improve BAME teacher recruitment, retention, and development for leadership. 

Career Information Advice & Guidance

• High quality culturally sensitive CIAG with clear career pathways 

Social, Emotional, and Mental Health Provision

• High quality culturally sensitive SEMH with clear pathways