Youth Challenge  Equality Objectives 

Youth Challenge is part of the Bolton Impact Trust and as a trust we are a diverse organisation, where people from many different backgrounds and cultures work together. The Trust, including Youth Challenge, and its partners have a longstanding commitment to celebrating this diversity, promoting good relations between our diverse communities, and ensuring that its services are appropriate and accessible for everyone.

We are committed to improving equality and the objectives below set out our individual needs and priorities at Youth Challenge. The Trust equality objectives can be found on the trust section of our website. 

Bolton Impact Trust Academy Equality Objectives

 

Academy

Objective

How will we know it has been achieved  

Progress against objective February 2023

Youth Challenge

To work with the Local Authority in ensuring the building is as accessible for all as feasibly possible.

To ensure the accessibility policy is updated by September 2021, with all the actions discussed with the LA included.

The policy was most recently updated in September 2022 and ensures that the site is as accessible as possible.

Youth Challenge

To address cultural events through assemblies, event days and the curriculum to prepare our children for a life in a diverse society.

Updated cultural capital diary of events– September 2021

Updated cultural capital policy for the year 21/22

July 2022 – All planned activities are included in all key stage curriculum plans.

In 2022 we earned a gold standard SMSC quality mark in recognition of our efforts to deliver a whole school inclusive curriculum.

Cultural capital is delivered through form time sessions each Monday morning.

Youth Challenge

To play an important role in the community, fostering good relations is a central part of our work to build community and social cohesion in the local area. To continue to build positive relationships with parents especially the parents who have been marginalised by previous education providers.

Engaging effectively with our communities through outside agency and community voice in order for us to understand the issues which are of importance to our communities.

Feedback from parents and other links within the local community have been positive and we have raised money for several local charities.

Youth Challenge

To ensure that our KS3 curriculum represents diversity in its content.

Reviewing the curriculum for English and wider world to ensure that it features authors from different backgrounds and explores the experiences of people from a variety of cultures.

New objective February 2023

Youth Challenge

To address prejudice attitudes, including misogynistic views.

Staff to undertake training on how best to tackle issues relating to misogyny and other form of prejudice.  Staff to contribute to the development of a strategic plan that can be delivered through our phase one and phase two curriculum.

New objective February 20