St. John's CE, Thornham School respects and celebrates the diversity within our community and is committed to providing an environment which ensures that all pupils and staff are treated with dignity and respect. We seek to provide a positive learning and working environment, free from discrimination, harassment, or victimisation.
We are committed to fulfilling our statutory duties under the Equality Act 2010 tackling all forms of discrimination by:
The Cranmer Education Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer and welcomes applicants from all groups.
Collecting and publishing governing board diversity data
Diversity is important and we want our trustees and our local governing committees to be increasingly reflective of the communities they serve. The Trust is in the process of working through Governor Hub’s facility to see if it is possible to collate Trustees’ and Local Governing Board members’ information. The return will be voluntarily, and they can opt out of sharing their information, including protected characteristics, at any given time including after publication. To ensure that individuals cannot be identified through the publication of data, anonymous data will only be published in an appropriate format based on the number of optional returns. The current legal advice is that the safest way to protect data subjects and special category data, meeting the UK GDPR standard, would be to publish information that does not amount to ‘personal’ because it is anonymous, and therefore data protection principles do not apply.
To continue the high profile of committing to the elimination of sexual violence and harassment (SV&H) and to be able to review the statistics with updated policies and procedures, training received, and developed curriculums with staff committed to educating our children and young people to recognise SV&H and to be increasingly able to report it, by being able to articulate it and by being confident in doing so.
By addressing sexual violence and harassment when it occurs, and by having the processes and procedures and the curriculum as the foundation to develop understanding we are also helping children and young people’s mental health. SV&H is a safeguarding issue. The statutory guidance in KCSIE states that safeguarding is:
It is therefore our objective to recognise all equality, diversity, and inclusion issues as safeguarding issues and potentially, human rights. Knowing which vulnerable and protected characteristic groups are potentially more at risk and include issues e.g., modern slavery, or implications of domestic abuse.
We commit to continuing to educate ourselves, as leaders, teachers and educators and using our personal agency and ability to act as agents of change. Together we determine what equality and social justice looks like and shape the culture through our ethos as a trust, and in all our schools.
For information about SEND at St. John's please go to the Key Information tab on the main menu bar and click on Special Educational Needs and Disabilities