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MIND THE DOOR. Doors opening ......Doors closing A talk by Terry Mortimer NUT Stoke Rochford Nov 5 th 2011. MIND THE DOOR. Commonwealth Immigration Act 1968 Equal Pay Act 1970 Immigration Act 1971 Sex Discrimination Act 1975 Race Relations Act 1976. MIND THE DOOR.
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MIND THE DOOR Doors opening ......Doors closing A talk by Terry Mortimer NUT Stoke Rochford Nov 5th 2011 Terry Mortimer
MIND THE DOOR Commonwealth Immigration Act 1968 Equal Pay Act 1970 Immigration Act 1971 Sex Discrimination Act 1975 Race Relations Act 1976 Terry Mortimer
MIND THE DOOR 1980 NUT Multicultural Working Party 1981 Rampton ReportAn Investigation into the underachievement of West Indian Children in our schools January 1981 Deptford Fire March 1981 Black people’s Day of Action April 1981Operation Swamp 81, Met Police, leading to Brixton ‘Riots’ Terry Mortimer
MIND THE DOOR July 1981 ‘riots’ in Handsworth, Southall, Toxteth, Nottingham, Moss Side, Leeds, Leicester, Southampton, Halifax, Bedford, Gloucester, Wolverhampton, Coventry, Bristol and Edinburgh 1981 Lord SCARMAN reports on civil disturbances – finds no Institutional Racism but recommends - Police and Criminal Evidence Act of 1984 and Independent Police Complaints Authority established in 1985 Terry Mortimer
MIND THE DOOR 1983 ILEA publishes policy documents ‘RACE, GENDER, CLASS.’ 1984GLC Year of Anti-Racism 1985The Swann Report, Education for All; the Report into the Education of Children from Ethnic Minority groups. 1985NUT publishes Anti-Racism in Education Guidelines 1985Race ‘riots’ in Brixton 1986 ‘Murder in the playground’ - Macdonald report on murder of Ahmed Iqbal Ullah in Manchester. 1987Race ‘riots’ in Leeds Terry Mortimer
MIND THE DOOR 1988 Education Reform Act 1988 National Curriculum 1988 Black Report - testing, school league tables Terry Mortimer
MIND THE DOOR 1989 Race ‘riots’ in Dewsbury 1991 Race ‘riots’ in Meadow Well 1992 Race ‘riots’ in Bristol Terry Mortimer
MIND THE DOOR 1993. Murder of Stephen Lawrence 1999Macpherson Report into the death of Stephen Lawrence 2000Ofsted Framework - instructing schools to prevent and address racism and to promote racial equality 2000 Race Relations Amendment Act Terry Mortimer
MIND THE DOOR Terry Mortimer
MIND THE DOOR Terry Mortimer
MIND THE DOOR 2000February Murder of Victoria Climbie 2003Laming Report into the death of Victoria Climbie leading to 2003Green paper ‘Every Child Matters’ and 2004 Children Act - with provision for Sure Start centres and Early Intervention Schemes Terry Mortimer
MIND THE DOOR 2010 Schools White Paper – The Importance of Teaching leading to 2012 Ofsted Inspection Framework Barely mentions anything to do with the challenge to combat racism Terry Mortimer
MIND THE DOOR 21.600 Head teachers in England’s state schools Of whom there are 30 Black Male Head teachers (20 in nursery or primary and 10 in secondary Schools and 127 Black female Head teachers mainly in primary or nursery schools In all 0.7% of heads are Black Caribbean or Black African(Guardian April 2011) Devon 0.0% of heads are Black Caribbean or Black African ( November 2011) Terry Mortimer
MIND THE DOOR 14,000 Professors in UK universities of whom there are 50 Black Professors Comprising 40 male professors And 10 female professors These figures have not changed in 8 years. (Higher Education Statistics Agency May 2011) Terry Mortimer
MIND THE DOOR Ofsted 2, 914 Ofsted Additional Inspectors (A.Is) Of whom 32are Black or Black British 228 HMI Of whom 5are Black or Black British Terry Mortimer
MIND THE DOOR 2011 - 4th August Mark Duggan killed by police in Tottenham 47 hours later and his family had still not been informed by the police. Police failure to act according to Macpherson recommendations leads to Race Riot in Tottenhamspilling over into Civil unrest across England (London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds Sheffield etc) November 2011 Still no investigation into the role of the police in the death of Mark Duggan but the Coalition Government is ‘very concerned about gangs in our inner cities.’ Terry Mortimer
MIND THE DOOR September - 2011 21 out of 43 police forces in England will stop recording the ethnicity of people stopped to account for their movements (Guardian 23-09-11) Terry Mortimer
MIND THE DOOR MIND THE DOORS Terry Mortimer