Lancashire Equality Mark

St Oswald's have signed up to work towards achieving the Lancashire Equality Mark.

The Lancashire Equality Mark is awarded to schools who have taken measures to embed Equality throughout their practice with the goal of enabling all pupils to thrive in a supportive learning community. It has been developed by a working group in Lancashire and provides a clear framework to guide schools through the process of auditing, developing and consolidating good practice in different areas of Equality. It builds on and extends the good practice of the Lancashire Race Equality Mark.

The Equality Mark comprises now comprises of six individual Equality Badges:

• Race Equality Badge
• Sex Equality Badge
• Disability Equality Badge
• Socio-economic Equality Badge
• Sexual Orientation and Gender Re-assignment Equality Badge
• Religion and Belief Equality Badge

When a school achieves all six badges they will be awarded the Equality Mark and the Equality Mark flag. Schools determine their own pathway through the framework by identifying meaningful priorities that will make a difference in the area of equality in their school community and will support their wider development plans. Schools can work at their own pace and they can choose from a range of packages of support to meet their individual requirements.

At St. Oswald's, we have signed up to the Equality Charter, which is displayed in school too.