Will the Minister set out the reasons for not creating a duty to promote racial equality and creating anti-racist cultures in schools, similar to the duty to educate on rights?
The Public Sector Equality Duty is a legal requirement placed on all maintained schools in Wales. It sets out general and specific duties for every educational setting to understand and embed eliminating discrimination, advancing equality of opportunity and fostering good relations, across all protected characteristics, including race and ethnicity.
Wales has led the way by becoming the first part of the UK to make it mandatory to teach Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic histories and experiences in the curriculum. This teaching ensures our children and young people develop an understanding of others’ identities and make connections with people, places and histories elsewhere in Wales and across the world. It reinforces the importance of teaching past and present experiences and contributions of ethnic minority peoples, as part of the story of Wales across the curriculum.
The Welsh Government is committed to creating an anti-racist Wales by 2030, as set out in our Anti-racist Wales Action Plan. This includes an anti-racist education system.