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Community Cohesion
Schools now have a duty to promote community cohesion. Most schools in Waltham Forest have been doing so for years. Now they all need to demonstrate how. Cohesion comes through developing relationships and understanding between age groups and social classes, across ethnic and faith groups and ensuring that everyone feels a sense of belonging and inclusion. This website suggests starting points for school strategies and practice informed by thinking and examples from all over the UK.
Download, Breaking down the 'walls of silence': report and annex on supporting community engagement and tackling extremism in the London Borough of Waltham Forest Report by the Institute of Community Cohesion (iCoCo) August 2007
Links
Curriculum Review – Diversity and Citizenship (The Ajegbo report)
http://publications.teachernet.gov.uk/eOrderingDownload/DfES_Diversity_&_Citizenship.pdf
_Diversity_&_Citizenship.pdf
DfE Guidance on the duty to promote community cohesion http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/wholeschool/communitycohesion/
The Commission on Integration and Cohesion Report - Our Shared Future http://www.integrationandcohesion.org.uk/Our_final_report.aspx
