CSIE is delighted to have received an Innovative Practice Award 2016 from the Zero Project, for a world with zero barriers, for our work on Equality: Making It Happen – A guide to help schools ensure everyone is safe, included and learning. Created with schools for schools and sponsored by the NASUWT, the largest teacher’s union in the UK, CSIE’s new guide helps schools address prejudice, reduce bullying and promote equality holistically. “Seductively practical” and user-friendly, the guide is made up of succinct reference cards, covering all equality strands and aspects of school life, which offer: key information; practical advice and suggested activities; examples of good practice; equality monitoring tools; and sources of further information and support, including lesson plans.

The award ceremony was held on Wednesday 10 February during the Zero Project Conference 2016 at the United Nations offices in Vienna. More than 500 participants from 70 countries attended in person and many more via the accessible online livestream. CSIE director Artemi Sakellariadis received the award on behalf of everyone who has helped create the new guide. The whole project has been made possible with financial support from the NASUWT, Big Lottery Fund, Molitor Foundation, Reuben Foundation and RTR Foundation. Equality: Making It Happen has been created in close collaboration with eight schools: Eastlea Community School in London; Emersons Green Primary School in South Gloucestershire; Little Heath School in West Berkshire; North Beckton Primary School in London; Redland Green School in Bristol; Sir John Heron Primary School in London; The Wroxham School in Hertfordshire; and Yeo Moor Primary School in North Somerset. More schools, organisations and individuals have contributed to the development of Equality: Making It Happen and are all listed, and thanked, in the acknowledgements section of the guide itself. CSIE remains grateful to them all.

Equality: Making It Happen is available directly from CSIE at the discounted price of £30 (RRP £75) and, during February only, at the introductory price of £25.