Welcome to the Ethnic Minority Achievement site, this site aims to provide support to Local Authorities (LAs) and schools by:

• updating you on Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) work;
• providing documentation for ethnic background data collection;
• sharing successful experiences of schools and LAs;
• signposting useful links and publications which provide information and research on minority ethnic pupils educational achievement.

We hope this site is informative and helps you to make a difference.

Announcment by Jim Knight on 12 November 2007

Priority Review: Exclusion of Black Pupils "Getting it right" (PDF 178KB)

The disproportionate exclusion of Black pupils (the 'exclusions gap') has been a key issue for Black communities and the Department is determined to understand and address the issue. Last year we commissioned a Priority Review to examine the issue in depth. The review involved expert practitioners and face to face meetings with schools, stakeholders and nearly 100 pupils and families directly affected. A copy of that report and a guidance note setting out clearly the issues that led to the review being commissioned is now available.

Statement by Jim Knight (Word 29KB)

DCSF Guidance: Recording and Reporting Racist Incidents 2006

Racism is a problem affecting society as a whole: it is not something that occurs in isolation in schools and one key step towards creating a safe learning environment is ensuring that all forms of racism are tackled firmly as and when they occur, because no child can feel safe in an environment where racism is not challenged. The DCSF guidance document: ‘Recording and Reporting Racist Incidents’ (2006) intends to offer advice and case studies to maintained schools and local authorities on how to improve procedures for recording and reporting racist incidents. The guidance supports the Home Office document ‘Community Cohesion Education Standards for Schools’ (2004) and is also intended to be read alongside the DCSF advice on Bullying around racism, religion and culture’ (2006), which addresses ways to both respond to and prevent racist bullying.

Ethnicity and Education: The Evidence on Minority Ethnic Pupils aged 5 - 16
(Research Topic Paper: 2006 Edition)

http://publications.teachernet.gov.uk/
eOrderingDownload/DFES-0208-2006.pdf
This topic paper presents the latest statistics and research on minority ethnic pupils in the education system and updates the January 2005 topic paper. Download your copy now!
See publication for details of how to order hardcopies.

Aiming High: Meeting the needs of newly arrived learners of EAL

http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primary/
publications/inclusion/newarrivals/
These materials aim to support schools who may be working with newly arrived isolated learners of English as an additional language in settings which may have little or no access to expert Ethnic Minority Achievement support.

For further detailed information see the QCA website Pathways to learning for new arrivals at www.qca.org.uk

Ethnic Minority Achievement (PDF 126KB)
This leaflet raises three important questions:  
1. Why focus on raising the achievement of Ethnic Minority pupils?
2. What works?
3.  Whose responsibility is it?

Moving on from 7/7:(PDF 78.1KB)
Advice to Schools from the Department for Education and Skills
July's indiscriminate terrorist attacks targeted at London's commuters and the possible threat of attacks elsewhere in the country have created a number of challenges to schools and to the whole country.
This document has been prepared as an additional on-line resource for schools.

If you have any comments or views - especially on how we can make this site more useful - please email: ethnic.minorities@dcsf.gsi.gov.uk