How do you promote the British value of mutual respect?

How do staff in your organisation promote fundamental British values by tackling intolerance and promoting respect and good relations? Did you know that ECU has produced updated guidance for staff working in further and higher education?

The Equality Challenge Unit (ECU) has recently published updated guidance on fostering good relations, preventing hate crime and managing intolerance. It is aimed at senior leaders, equality and diversity leads and staff in student services working in further and higher education.

The guidance provides a framework for developing practical solutions to occurrences of hate crime or intolerance by outlining good principles of practice that institutions should consider in their individual context and on a case-by-case basis.

The guidance builds on and replaces the previous ECU publications Promoting good campus relations: dealing with hate crime and intolerance (ECU, 2005) and Promoting good campus relations: an institutional imperative (ECU, 2007). It updates changes to the law, refreshes previous examples and adds new case studies to provide a comprehensive toolkit.

Areas covered include:

• Challenges to good relations on campus: includes definitions of hate crimes and incidents, examples of manifestations and other challenges to good relations.
• Tackling intolerance and promoting good relations: includes immediate crisis intervention, medium-term anticipatory action and long-term preventative action.
• Comprehensive case studies and scenarios covering external speakers, lawful speech, protests, individual and group behaviour, students’ unions, banning groups, displaying literature.
• A legal responsibilities checklist for activities that might impact on good relations, including questions to consider and actions to mitigate any negative impact.

You can download the guidance here