MIND THE DOOR Doors opening......Doors closing A talk by Terry Mortimer NUT Stoke Rochford Nov 5 th 2011 05/11/20111Terry Mortimer.

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Doors opening ......Doors closing

A talk by

Terry Mortimer

NUT Stoke Rochford Nov 5th 2011

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Commonwealth Immigration Act 1968

Equal Pay Act 1970

Immigration Act 1971

Sex Discrimination Act 1975

Race Relations Act 1976

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• 1980 NUT Multicultural Working Party

• 1981 Rampton Report An Investigation into the underachievement of West Indian Children in our schools

• January 1981 Deptford Fire

• March 1981 Black people’s Day of Action

• April 1981 Operation Swamp 81, Met Police, leading to Brixton ‘Riots’

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MIND THE DOOR• July 1981 ‘riots’ in Handsworth, Southall, Toxteth,

Nottingham, Moss Side, Leeds, Leicester, Southampton, Halifax, Bedford, Gloucester, Wolverhampton, Coventry, Bristol and Edinburgh

• 1981 Lord SCARMAN reports on civil disturbances –

finds no Institutional Racism but recommends -• Police and Criminal Evidence Act of 1984 and• Independent Police Complaints Authority established

in 1985

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MIND THE DOOR• 1983 ILEA publishes policy documents ‘RACE, GENDER, CLASS.’

• 1984 GLC Year of Anti-Racism

• 1985 The Swann Report, Education for All; the Report into the Education of Children from Ethnic Minority groups.

• 1985 NUT publishes Anti-Racism in Education Guidelines

• 1985 Race ‘riots’ in Brixton

• 1986 ‘Murder in the playground’ - Macdonald report on murder of Ahmed Iqbal Ullah in Manchester.

• 1987 Race ‘riots’ in Leeds

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• 1988 Education Reform Act

• 1988 National Curriculum

• 1988 Black Report - testing, school league tables

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• 1989 Race ‘riots’ in Dewsbury

• 1991 Race ‘riots’ in Meadow Well

• 1992 Race ‘riots’ in Bristol

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• 1993. Murder of Stephen Lawrence

• 1999 Macpherson Report into the death of Stephen Lawrence

• 2000 Ofsted Framework - instructing schools to prevent and address racism and to promote racial equality

• 2000 Race Relations Amendment Act

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MIND THE DOOR• 2000 February Murder of Victoria Climbie

• 2003 Laming Report into the death of Victoria Climbie leading to

• 2003 Green paper ‘Every Child Matters’ and

• 2004 Children Act - with provision for • Sure Start centres and • Early Intervention Schemes

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• 2010 Schools White Paper – The Importance of Teaching leading to

• 2012 Ofsted Inspection Framework Barely mentions anything to do with the

challenge to combat racism

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MIND THE DOOR• 21.600 Head teachers in England’s state schools

Of whom there are

• 30 Black Male Head teachers (20 in nursery or primary and 10 in secondary Schools

and

• 127 Black female Head teachers mainly in primary or nursery schools

In all

• 0.7% of heads are Black Caribbean or Black African (Guardian April 2011)

• Devon 0.0% of heads are Black Caribbean or Black African ( November 2011)

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MIND THE DOOR• 14,000 Professors in UK universities of whom there are

• 50 Black Professors Comprising

• 40 male professors • And

• 10 female professors

• These figures have not changed in 8 years. (Higher Education Statistics Agency May 2011)

•

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Ofsted

• 2, 914 Ofsted Additional Inspectors (A.Is) Of whom

• 32 are Black or Black British

• 228 HMI Of whom

• 5 are Black or Black British

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MIND THE DOOR• 2011 - 4th August Mark Duggan killed by police in Tottenham

• 47 hours later and his family had still not been informed by the police. Police failure to act according to Macpherson recommendations leads to

• Race Riot in Tottenham spilling over into

• Civil unrest across England (London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds Sheffield etc)

• November 2011 Still no investigation into the role of the police in the death of Mark Duggan but the Coalition Government is ‘very concerned about gangs in our inner cities.’

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September - 2011 • 21 out of 43 police forces in England will stop

recording the ethnicity of people stopped to account for their movements

(Guardian 23-09-11)

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