Page 3 - Anti-Racism Pocketbook for Schools and Academies

Foreword

Everyone in a workplace should have a positive experience.
Employees should feel safe to express themselves and their

identities without fear of being judged or harassed in the

workplace. This includes staff at every level within the organisation.

All individuals that interact with an organisation, staff, or

customers, should believe that an organisation supports their

identity. The workplace should be free from racism, subtle acts of
exclusion (S.A.E.), prejudice, and other barriers to having a safe

environment.

It is important for organisations to understand the impact that
racism has on an ethnically diverse individual.

Almost 15% of ethnically diverse women and 8% of ethnically

diverse men stated that racial discrimination has caused them to

leave their jobs.

Statistics like these should lead organisations to commit to

proactively developing anti-racist strategies within their

workplaces.

This pocketbook looks at the impact of racism on ethnically diverse

staff in the workplace. There is a clear absence of ethnically diverse

people in leaderships roles across various industries in the UK,
which demonstrates the need for more inclusive recruitment and

selection policies, processes, procedures, practices, and people

development within the workplace.

We hope that this resource helps staff/leaders to raise their

awareness, knowledge and understanding around supporting

racially diverse staff within their organisations.

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