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Appendix A: List of Seed-funded projects
Project 1: A Review of Guidance on Dealing with Racist Incidents
Project 2: Guidance on Dealing with Homophobic Incidents
Purpose - to review the practice that schools and Education Authorities ( EAs) employ to deal with homophobic incidents, prejudice and harassment. The project will look to gauge awareness levels of staff and pupils in identifying and addressing such incidents and ensure that there is a consistent effective approach that will build confidence in recognising homophobic incidents and will allow incidents to be dealt with effectively.
Project 3: Pilot Project on Staff (school staff) Development on Equality
Purpose - the development and subsequent piloting of a model of staff development aimed at promoting equality and challenging discrimination in schools and fostering equality in the school ethos and environment, as well as bringing on board the school community .
Project 4: Pilot Project on Mainstreaming Anti-discrimination into the Curriculum
Purpose - a pilot project that will assist school staff to mainstream anti-discrimination into the curriculum. The project should focus on all aspects of the curriculum. The delivery of anti-discrimination education should also be considered.
Project 5: To Provide Training and Assistance to Education Authorities and Schools with taking forward RRAA duties
Purpose - to assist education authorities and schools to take forward duties set out in the Race Relations Act, as amended and the subsequent RRA 1976 (Statutory Duties) (Scotland) Order 2002.
Project 6: Research Equality in Education work
Purpose - to research the work of the Scottish Executive and partner bodies in the field of equality in education in Scotland, covering three separate areas:
- documenting past work and gauging how effective key areas of work have been;
- detailing current work and offering recommendations on how the impact and effectiveness of this work can be measured; and
- based on past and current work, offer recommendations for areas that future work should address.
Project 7: Promote the Educational Interests of Gypsies and Travellers
Purpose - to promote the educational interests of Gypsies and Travellers through taking forward key recommendations and objectives outlined in recent research and reports on Gypsy and Traveller issues.
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