Good Relations Strategy and Plan 2018-2021

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The 2018-2019 programme has been
developed as a result of the audit
although aspects of the programme,
such as the local grant aid, has already
been processed. The learning from the
audit will be incorporated during the
development of programmes in 2018-
2019 but especially for the development
of new programmes for 2019-2020.
Post Primary Anti-Prejudice
Training Initiative
In response to:
• Clear community desire for a focus
on young people;
• Engagement of young people
at interfaces and with bonfires;
perception of anti-social behaviour;
• Continued need for understanding of
s75 groups and racism in particular;
• Building on successes of programme
to date.
The programme builds on a programme
delivered for over ten years but that was
specifically refined and amended last
year, having been continually improved
over its entire lifetime. In 2017/18 a
delivery organisation was appointed after
a tender and the same will happen in
2018/19 and subsequent years.
Building on feedback from facilitators
in 2017/18 the GR Team has designed a
programme to be delivered to all year 10
pupils in all of the post-primary schools
across the Council area. It is anticipated
to deliver over 2-3 sessions per group
within the school. The initiative will
address issues such as sectarianism,
racism, prejudice and homophobia.
The programme will significantly increase
the number of indirect participants
benefiting from the learning of direct
participants. This will be part of the
tender process for successful tenderers
to identify options and demonstrate how
indirect participation will be best met.
Participants will undertake an antiprejudice
poster design competition, the
winner of which will have their poster
used by the Peace IV Anti-Prejudice
campaign, probably as a billboard in a
prominent site, hopefully for the start of
Community Relations/Cultural Awareness
Week (CR/CA Week) in ‘19.
Baseline assessments of participants
will be carried out through a short initial
attitudinal surveys with a focus on:
• Contact with people from other
religious, political or ethnic
backgrounds
• Attitudes to people from
other religious, political or
ethnic backgrounds
Future years will include:
• Lessons from the 2018/2019
programme being incorporated in
to future delivery;
• Developing an on-line resource and
encourage schools to produce tools
that can be shared;
• Exploring more inter action between
schools especially involving
urban-rural schools and across
the community.