All children should be able to relate to – and feel inspired by – the adults around them. School staff provide some of our earliest adult role models. Yet to give one example, almost half of schools in England still don’t have any ethnic minority teachers.

The issue of diversity in our country’s classrooms is about more than race alone. Children can also benefit from access to a wide variety of role models with lived experiences of the issues related to neurodiversity, disability, LGBTQ+, gender and socio-economic background.

In this Future Terms event we explored why authentic representation is so vital in schools. A panel of experts share their experiences of inclusivity in the education sector, and discuss why recruiting a diverse workforce is only one small step in making the system work for every child.

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This panel aired on 24 March 2022. Read the blog.

Hosted by:

Jenny Mannion-Krase – Programme Welfare and Access Manager at Teach First (moderator)

On this panel:

Dominic Carnall – CEO at Just Like Us

Adrian Rollins – Deputy Head of School at Nottingham University Samworth Academy

Anuradha Roy – Digital Learning Coordinator at University of the Arts London