Hate crime and prejudice-based behaviours: Preventing prejudice-based behaviours
To achieve a sustained, whole-setting approach and create cultural change:
- embed social justice, rights and equality across the curriculum
- challenge attitudes that normalise prejudice-based behaviours
Preventing prejudice-based behaviours connects to a variety of local and national work streams and policy areas, including but not limited to:
- United Nation Convention of the Rights of the Child
- Mentors in Violence Prevention and Gender Based Violence prevention
- LGBT Inclusive Education
- Anti-racist Education
- Safeguarding
- Prevent
- Relational approaches
- Equalities work
There is likely to be ongoing local or setting priorities that align closely with preventing prejudice-based behaviour.
The national approach to anti-bullying
The National Approach to Anti-Bullying includes general learning on healthy relationships and respect, there are opportunities to use the curriculum to prevent prejudice. This may include:
- opportunities for children and young people to learn about the causes, manifestations, impacts and prevention of prejudice in its various forms
- the development of a curriculum which fosters good relations by including meaningful, integrated representation of all protected characteristics and opportunities for organic learning about diverse people, families and communities in society
- considered learning experiences for children and young people to develop their knowledge and understanding of diversity, rights, and Respect for All
