Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

Rivermead Inclusive Trust have a strong commitment to promoting and celebrating Equality, Diversity and Inclusive across the whole Trust and especially within all of our associated schools.

We recognise that we as a Trust are on a journey but are committed to ensuring that becomes fully embedded across our Trust rather than being surface level.

One of the key areas that we have been focussing on is in relation to accelerating our work on race equality – talking, listening, action-planning, and collaborating.

Our ongoing listening activities have been critical to the development of our Strategy. Through our work to date, our Trust community tells us that we need to:

Foster a sense of belonging amongst our Ethnically diverse staff and learners.
Enable safe, trustworthy, and effective reporting mechanisms ensuring everyone is confident of how to report discrimination.
Address racist behaviour which can include overt racism, microaggressions or institutional racism, and empower staff and students to recognise and challenge these behaviours.
Create a curriculum which is antiracist in its content, delivery and ethos and which add
to the culturally diverse and inclusive Trust school’s context.
Increase the racial diversity profile of our Trustees and Senior Leadership Teams to reflect our diverse Trust community better and bring important perspectives to decision making bodies at the highest level.
Partner with external agencies and organisations to share good practice and learn from others’ experiences.
Communicate and consult with our Trust community regularly on race equality.
Be open as individuals and as an organisation to challenge on our approach to antidiscrimination by listening, consulting and learning from mistakes promptly and modifying behaviours, policies and procedures where required.
Engage with our diverse community to collectively understand and implement antiracist antidiscrimination approaches.

Rivermead Inclusive Trust (RIT) has, through its strategic plan, committed to creating an antidiscrimination culture and ethos as a strategic priority. The Anti-Discrimination Strategy aims to underpin the core RIT values, ensuring the following commitments:

Developing our people to achieve their full potential.
We will encourage widening access to learning by having fair and flexible admissions policies, offering diverse qualifications, and providing a range of modes of delivery; our children will be able to succeed whatever their personal and social background.
We will secure the highest standards of equality, diversity and inclusion, achieving accreditation where possible.
We will develop our schools and processes to create a caring environment that is alert to cultural differences.
We will celebrate the diversity of all pupils and employees.

This Anti-Discrimination Strategy, which applies to staff and students as well as visitors to the Trust and its schools, and others who associate with it, sets out how we will implement transformational change in the period 2023-2025

Rivermead Inclusive Trust has been accelerating its work on race equality – talking, listening, action-planning, and collaborating. This Strategy provides a framework for action and enables the Trust to build on progress and actions taken. It is designed to galvanise, empower and drive.

Our ongoing listening activities have been critical to the development of this Strategy.

The full version of the Trust strategy can be read by clicking on the link below:

Rivermead Inclusive Trust - Anti-Discrimination Strategy 2023-2025

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion across the Trust