Children’s Rights through Equality & Diversity

This collaborative offer of professional learning from Education Scotland Northern Team, Northern Alliance and Local Authority colleagues 21 is primarily aimed at newly qualified teachers within the Northern Alliance

This session aims to:

• Raise awareness of the issues related to equality and diversity to ensure inclusion

Session outline

• Why equality & diversity is important – links to children’s rights, mental health and sense of belong and ultimately achievement

• Bullying survey in Northern Alliance – findings and issues raised

• From our school to yours: practical approaches to LGBT education and BME

Target Audience - Please be aware that the target audience for this event is for professionals within the Education Sector in Scotland and to register for the event you must enter either a Glow email address, school/local authority email address or a workplace email address. Due to this, any bookings made with just a personal email address may be removed from the system. Thank you for your understanding. If this causes you any issues please contact: esevents@educationscotland.gov.scot

Ticket allocation - Due to tickets being allocated to Glow or school/local authority email addresses or a workplace email address, it is not possible to transfer your booking to anyone else. If you are unable to attend please cancel your booking to free up a space for another participant to attend. Please remember that for security purposes it is very important that you do not share your email information with anyone else to provide them access to this event.

Request for advance information - If you have specific accessibility requirements, for example, if you need slides or more information to be sent to you in advance, or need breaks at specific intervals, we would welcome more information about this in advance. Whilst it is your choice to disclose this information, or not, doing so will enable us to better understand your needs and plan how to best support your engagement. Our aim is to make appropriate adjustments to our programme delivery to ensure the best possible experience for our delegates.