That's Racist!: How the Regulation of Speech and Thought Divides Us All (Societas)

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Deb Austin said: “I’m aware that Mr Hart has been trying to access the training materials used by an independent trainer who is employed outside of the city council – and that request has been refused on the grounds of commercial sensitivities. And I understand that you’ve brought this issue to several committees and had a response there too.”

Of course, racism is still very much a real issue unfortunately but words such as ‘systemic racism’ and ‘white privilege’ are inappropriate.

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Schools are also free to engage any training providers to deliver training for their staff in line with school values and policy.

Our feeling is that it should be transparent. We represent residents in the city and obviously that includes parents.” Before writing a series of books (based on research in schools), Adrian Hart was a community and schools filmmaker and film tutor. After seven years as a part-time lecturer in special needs education, he formed Coyote Films in 1998. His films prioritise the participation of children and focus on a range of cohorts from refugee and asylum seekers to children with moderate or severe learning difficulties. Other projects simply use filmmaking as an enabling process for children in schools or in theatre groups or in council estates. In his last years in filmmaking (hired to develop local authority anti-racism educational resources) he concluded the work was damaging. He ended this work and warned about it in subsequent writings.The work is central to the council’s legal duties under the Equality Act 2010 to eliminate discrimination, advance equality of opportunity and foster good relations between communities – as well as to encourage civic engagement by under-represented groups.