Please see below for our equality policy and objectives.  We have an equalities team within the school that are driving our diversity agenda.

The team are currently working on the following:

• Developing the curriculum and learning environment to further promote diversity across the school and represent role models that young people can positively identify with.
• Introduce an Ethnic minority pupil group with the aim of providing a safe space to explore and discuss their ideas about making Balfour as inclusive as possible.
• Parent and carer forum to support the strategic direction of the equalities and diversity agenda.
• Language group- for children who also speak other languages to meet (monthly) and be able to speak to one another in their first language.  Remove – this isn’t in the action plan.

Recruitment:

• We welcome applications from all parts of our community as we aspire to have a staff body that matches the social and cultural diversity of our pupil intake.
• We are committed to ensuring that we follow a strict equal opportunities process for recruitment at all stages.

At Balfour, we ensure we comply with the public sector equality duty.

Our staff equalities lead is Mr Palmer (tompalmer@balfour.brighton-hove.sch.uk).  Our equality and diversity action plan for 2025-26 can be viewed below.