Chair- Jamal

Minutes- Kate

Apologies

Ms lucking- Art Exam

Ms Wilberforce- Duty

Alistair- ?

Barnaby- Art exam

Dominic- in detention. Turned out he was actually here.

Henry- ill

Matters arising from actions from last meeting

Womens Group

Jamal will help Dominic to set up Women’s Group Meeting as he didn’t get chance to speak to everyone this week. Obai assures us Ms Lucking is ready to sort it out for first week after half term.

Subversive Communication

Jamal invited to attend meeting in first week after Easter.

This week’s agenda

Pride- Jack

Jack requested friends of his attend pride. Friesia expressed concern this may be in breach of guidelines. Rob offered idea that the guests could line the parade and join us later. This sounds like a nice compromise to most of group. We could officially make those people part of our equalities LNS community. Friesia offered to speak with Chris and Pride London to confirm stance.

Behaviour Policy

Questions about ambiguity of statements.

Questions about sanctions matching up with offence.

Do homophobic statements end up with leadership involvement? Some group members felt this was more appropriate some expressed concerns this would simply silence the conversation. It was agreed we should work towards consistently applied sanctions for acts or verbalisations of prejudice and not increasing the sanctions for them.

Obai questioned some sanctions and how they could be applied unfairly.

Rob explained that referral is made by leadership only Rob added that added that there are no automatic sanctions for behaviours it simply sets up a conversation.

Kate expressed concerns that changing the whole behaviour policy right now may fall outside of our Equalities remit and that it would be beneficial to focus on the aspect we’ve talked about most which is preventing LGBTQ, Gender Identity, Disability or Ethnic Background from becoming a barrier to learning.

Continual raising of different acts of prejudice holding different levels of severity by teachers, staff, students and union groups has not yielded consistent results so far. Disability bullying should be on SIMS. Action – Kate will check the behaviour policy, SIMS and log and report to JLT via Obai.

Noted that the records are getting better.

Assembly on consequences for prejudice proposed. Some agreed but majority stated they wish to send out positive messages to prevent shutdown of conversation.

Ms Schuil said that we must still work on taking repeat offenses seriously. Propose actions next week.
Acts of prejudice should not be on the strike system. Obai will take to JLT.