The Department of Education, through its Community Relations, Equality and Diversity policy and strategy, aims to ensure that every child in Northern Ireland, in the age range 3 to 25 in the education and youth sectors, should grow into adulthood

• Understanding and respecting the rights, equality and diversity of all;
• Having the skills attitudes and behaviours their enable them to value and respect difference and engage positively within it;
• confident in their ability to relate to others from different cultures;
• skilled at engaging constructively in sensitive conversations, articulating their own views and beliefs and listening to others;
• knowledgeable about their own cultural background and that of others in Northern Ireland;
• recognising the rights of all as equal citizens;
• prepared for a changing and diverse society in which confident adults engage, learn from and trust one another as members together of a shared society.

The Department will promote good community relations

• by ensuring that all of its policies act to support the wider aim of educating children to adulthood in a diverse society;
• by ensuring that appropriate provision is included in the curriculum and in the planned experience of each child and young person as they grow through both the formal and informal education service;
• through regular liaison with other departments and relevant stakeholder organisations to promote and develop the co-ordination of policy.

A copy of the Community Relations, Equality and Diversity policy is available:

cred_policy_-_march_2011_-_word_version.doc(word doc 461kb)

cred_policy_doc1.pdf(pdf 166kb)

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