What the award is about

The Stephen Lawrence Education Award:
Celebrating Racial Equality in Your School

The Stephen Lawrence Education Award was established by the Race Equality Advisory Forum (REAF) in 1999/2000 to further encourage schools to promote racial equality and share good practice. Education Leeds is committed to maintaining the Award and has agreed to the management of it and work in partnership with the Stephen Lawrence Education Award Sub-Group to ensure its success.

Establishment of the Stephen Lawrence Education Award was seen as a way of helping schools to the implementation of the Recommendations made to education in the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry Report. The Award gives an opportunity to schools to focus on good race equality practice and to develop it further.

The Award is the first of its kind in the country and has been designed to:

• acknowledge and celebrate existing good practice in promoting race equality and achievement in schools
  
  
• encourage all schools to place a commitment to racial equality at the centre of curriculum, policy and practice
  
  
• provide a focus for racial equality initiatives in schools throughout the city
  
  
• provide an opportunity for schools to share effective practice

Membership of the Sub-Group

Maureen Baker - United Caribbean Association
Louise Crombie - Mary Seacole Nurses Association
Sandra Johnson - Black Governors Information Network
Tony Stanley - Leeds Racial Equality Council
Khirzah Hayat - Equal Opportunities Unit, Leeds City Council
Rehana Minhas - Strategic Manager for Equalities, Education Leeds