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Equality and Diversity

The main focus of HMIE’s work is raising educational standards, stimulating improvement and promoting self-evaluation to support the delivery of national and local outcomes.  As part of our work, we are strongly committed to eliminating discrimination and promoting equality.  We aim to ensure that all our staff have equality and diversity training as part of their induction and ongoing professional development programmes.  We involve staff, partners and stakeholders in the development of our policies and practice.  Through our inspections and reviews, and other work with our partners and stakeholders, we promote equality and identify good practice, including good practice in equality education for children, young people and adult learners, and disseminate that good practice across the system.

HMIE subscribes to the Scottish Government's schemes for Disability, Gender and Race Equality, all of which cover the period 2008-2011.  We have drawn up action plans as part of these schemes and are committed to publishing annual reports on the progress made with our action plans.

Report on HMIE Race Equality Scheme 2005-2008
Report on HMIE Disability Equality Action Plan 2008-2009
Report on HMIE Gender Equality Action Plan 2008-2009 
Report on HMIE Race Equality Action Plan 2009-2010 (November 28 2009)
Report on HMIE Disability Equality Action Plan 2009-10 (January 2010)

Policy on Equality and Diversity
This page opens a new window and provides information on our policy on equality and diversity.

Good practice in equality education 
This page opens a new window and provides instructions on how to find examples of good practice in equality education in a range of sectors.

Reporting on equality education
This page opens a new window and provides extracts from Improving Scottish Education 2005-2008 relating to equality education. 

Improving Scottish Education 2005-2008
This page opens a new window and gives you access to the whole report and related materials.

Our approaches to equality impact assessment 
This page opens a new window and provides information on how we are carrying out equality impact assessments of our work.