Greenacres Equality and Diversity Statement
South Pennine Academies Trust Equality Objectives
We live in a world of incredible diversity – through gender, race, culture, beliefs, age, sexual orientation, abilities. By accepting human diversity comes strength, the uniqueness that each of us can contribute to the greater good of our school.
Greenacres Primary Academy welcomes a diverse population of both students and staff and this diversity is one of our strengths and something we celebrate. In order to consolidate and build upon this diversity, it is essential that equality of opportunity and the absence of unfair discrimination be at the core of all our Academy’s activities.
Our Academy recognises the link between equality and quality and will not unfairly discriminate in the recruitment or general treatment of staff or students on the basis of any factor which is not relevant to academic achievement.
The Academy is committed to promoting and developing equality of opportunity in all its functions and will seek to do this by:
- communicating its commitment to equality and diversity to all members of the GPA community
- communicating where responsibility lies for equality issues
- providing training for decision-makers and briefings for staff and students
- maintaining mechanisms for implementation, monitoring, evaluation and review
- taking positive action to redress any under-representation of particular sub-groups in the workforce
- treating acts of discrimination as a disciplinary offence
- consulting with trade unions, interested groups and individuals, internal and external
