Equality & Access Plan

The Equality Act 2010 was introduced to ensure protection from discrimination, harassment and victimisation on the grounds of specific characteristics (referred to as protected characteristics). This means that schools cannot discriminate against pupils or treat them less favourably because of their sex (gender), race, disability, religion or belief, gender reassignment, sexual orientation or pregnancy or maternity.

The Act requires all public organisations, including schools to comply with the Public Sector Equality Duty and two specific duties;

The Public Sector Equality Duty

This requires all public organisations, including schools, to:

Eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation

Advance equality of opportunity between different groups

Foster good relations between different groups

Hinderton School’s priorities for the Single Equality Scheme are:

We achieve this by:

Two “specific duties”

This requires all public organisations, including schools to:

Staff at Hinderton School will: