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Community Relations Policy
The Department of Education, through its community relations 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
- confident in their ability to relate to others from different cultures;
- skilled at sharing resources, 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 the structure and organisation of education and youth work and by working with all the education partners, for example, Education and Library Boards, curriculum bodies, teacher education institutions, voluntary bodies to ensure that the promotion of good community relations becomes everyday practice in the life of each school and child;
- through regular liaison with the Community Relations Unit, the Community Relations Council and other departments to promote and develop the co-ordination of policy and the development of new schemes and activities.
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