Hate Crime

 

Reporting Hate Crime in Gloucestershire Education Settings 

A poster has been produced which features a QR code to enable quick and easy reporting of hate crime in schools, colleges, and other education settings in Gloucestershire. It can be used to report hate incidents affecting children and young people between reception age, and year 13. 

Download the Hate Incident Reporting poster here 

 

 

Hate Crime Strategy 

This Strategy builds upon the 2016-2021 Hate Crime and Incident (HC&I) Strategy launched on 11th October 2016. That strategy followed consultation with members of groups primarily affected by Hate Crime during
National Hate Crime Awareness Week in 2015 and subsequent extensive development. There have been many achievements during the course of the Strategy with a selection listed below. The Covid-19 Pandemic
had a significant impact on all organisations involved in the partnership from March 2020, putting much of the development work on hold and restricting delivery of most Hate Crime Awareness training.

• Despite staff changes at both the Constabulary and Victim Support Services (VSS) which impacted on continuity during the last 5 years, there have been many significant achievements against the 4 key overarching objectives which were set and which will remain going forward.

• Coordinator roles set up at Gloucestershire Constabulary and Victim Support Services
• Strategic Partnership mailing list expanded to 131 member organisations and individuals across the statutory and voluntary and community sectors
• 287 people received 1-day HC&I Training delivered by Dr Stevie Jade Hardy, University of Leicester Hate Crime Studies

• 1,105 people received 2 hr HC&I Awareness session delivered by members of the HC Partnership, developed by the team from the 1-day material. (Figure is up to March 2020 only as a result of Covid-19.)
• Training developed to increase the number who can deliver HC Awareness training across the county
• A 1 hr session developed for delivery to community members
• HC&I reports and referrals to VSS increased from 68 in 2016 to a peak figure of 743 in 2018; total of 2000+ in 2016-2019
• Age, Gender (sex), Homelessness and Alternative Subcultures added to Gloucestershire HC categories recorded by the Police in addition to the statutory categories of Disability Race, Religion, Sexual Orientation, & Transgender Identity.
• Dashboard created by Gloucestershire Constabulary for data collection, visual presentation and analysis ofHC&Is
• Quarterly Monitoring Panel set up to identify and address any constabulary issues in handling HC&I cases
• Guidance produced for schools to include Hate Crimes and Incidents within their Anti Bullying Policies
• Schools online reporting tool for bully and hate crime introduced

Download the full report here

 

 

Becoming Anti-Racist

 Andrew M. Ibrahim MD, MSc created this image and helps to visualise the phases of becoming anti-racist. The image was inspired by the work of Dr. Kendi and used with permission. 

Fear Zone:

• I deny racism is a problem.  
• I avoid hard questions.  
• I strive to be comfortable. 
• I talk to others who look and think like me.

Learning Zone:

• I recognize racism is a present and current problem. 
• I seek out questions that make me uncomfortable. 
• I understand my own privilege in ignoring racism. 
• I educate myself about race and structural racism. 
• I am vulnerable about my own biases and knowledge gaps. 
• I listen to others who think and look differently than me.

Growth Zone:

• I identify how I may unknowingly benefit from racism. 
• I promote and advocate for policies and leaders that are Anti-Racist. 
• I sit with my discomfort.
• I speak out when I see racism in action. 
• I educate my peers on how racism harms our profession. 
• I don't let mistakes deter me from being better. 
• I yield positions of power to those otherwise marginalized.

 

 

Hate Crime CPS

The term 'hate crime' can be used to describe a range of criminal behaviour where the perpetrator is motivated by hostility or demonstrates hostility towards the victim's disability, race, religion, sexual orientation or transgender identity.

These aspects of a person's identity are known as 'protected characteristics'. A hate crime can include verbal abuse, intimidation, threats, harassment, assault and bullying, as well as damage to property. The perpetrator can also be a friend, carer or acquaintance who exploits their relationship with the victim for financial gain or some other criminal purpose.

Visit the CPS website

 

 

Disability Hate Crime - Schools Project PowerPoint

Definition of Disability Hate Crime

"Any criminal offence, which is perceived, by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by hostility or prejudice based on a person's disability or perceived disability."

This PowerPoint is a useful resource to use in schools re Disability Hate Crime. Click on the image to view the full PowerPoint.

 

 

Run, Hide, Tell: Advice for Young People

Right now, terrorism is a real threat and even though attacks are rare, there are things you can do to stay safe. View the 2 videos below which gives advice on what to do if threatened:

 

 

 

Gloucestershire Hate Crime Strategy

Tackling Hate Crime in Gloucestershire.

Foreword - Gloucestershire Police and Crime Commissioner Martin Surl - Hate crime is about people being intolerant of each other, but is goes far deeper than that.  It's when people are targeted for who they are or what they believe - their sexual orientation, trans identity, their race or their religion or disability. 

Click here to view the full report

 

 

LET'S TALK ABOUT IT - Working Together To Prevent Terrorism

Action Counters Terrorism - Counter Terrorism Policy

This is an initiative designed to provide greater understanding of PREVENT and to challenge all forms of extremism, be that Right Wing, Hardline Activists or Religious Extremist. By highlighting the issues and initiating discussions around the potential threats these create, we can develop a greater understanding and wider awareness.

 

Extremism

Preventing and challenging extremism through PSHE education; Resources to support teaching

• A generic framework for discussing a terrorist attack - July 2016

• Preventing & challenging extremism through PSHE education - Resources to support teaching (List of suggested resourses - final)

• PSHE Education Programme of Study (Key stage 1-5) - Jan 2017

• Ten Principles of PSHE Education

• What are the expectations on schools to respond to concerns raised by extremism (Ofsted & ISI expectations)

 

Extremism Lessons - Understanding & Preventing Extremism

• Extremism teachers lesson notes

• Preventing Extremism lesson for Key Stages 3 - 4

 

ACT For YOUTH - report 28/09/2017

Counter Terrorism Police have now launched stage one of their first ever safety campaign aimed at children and teenagers.

Designed to teach 11-16 year olds how to act in the unlikely event they are caught in a gun or knife attack, the ACT for YOUTH campaign reinvents the successful ‘Run, Hide, Tell’ public information films for a new generation.

Click here to read the full report

 

Terrorism

• If you’ve seen or heard something that could suggest a terrorist threat to the UK do not ignore it, report it. View the 'Action Counters Terrorism' Policy

• Let’s Talk About It – preventing people becoming terrorists.

• Report Extremist/Terrorist material online

• Discussing terrorist attacks with your pupils

• Supporting children worried about terrorism

 

Staying Safe Online

• Get Safe Online provides advice for young people of all ages on social networking, gaming, and online radicatlisation.

• Dorset Police Cyber Crime YouTube channel has published various videos with safety tips for internet users.

• Faith Associates has produced the ‘Keeping Muslims Safe Online’ in partnership with Facebook. It is a safety guide aimed at providing easy to understand tips and advice outlining best practice to help keep Muslims safe online.

 

Radicalisation

“FAT FACE” is a 10-minute video on Vimeo exploring a young boy’s journey to extreme right wing radicalisation. The video is most suitable for ages 11-14 and a lesson plan is provided to support teaching around the video.

Password to access the video:  ‘toler8’ 

 

educate.against.hate

Addressing topics such as extremism and radicalisation in the classroom can be challenging, but it needn’t be daunting.

To help you, the government has created the Educate Against Hate website where you can download free lesson plans, advice and teaching resources.

You can also follow educate.against.hate on Facebook and Twitter.

 

 

 

UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency - Teaching Resources

With forced displacement reaching historic levels, schools all over the world are welcoming increasing numbers of refugee children. Teachers are facing new challenges in making sense of forced displacement and its complexities. With refugees and migrants regularly making headlines in the media and the internet bustling with information on the topic, explaining the situation of refugees and migrants to primary and secondary school children has become part of many educators’ daily work.

In addition, training and guidance for teachers with refugees in their classrooms is not always based on best practice, and is not always easily available. 

In the UNHCR Teachers’ Toolkit you can find free-of-charge and adaptable UNHCR teaching materials on refugees, asylum, migration and statelessness, and a section dedicated to professional development and guidance for primary and secondary school teachers on including refugee children in their classes.

 

 

 

Articles

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