E/ME1/1/1

File relating to appendices of a report on Multicultural Education following a consultation exercise, including information as follows:

1987 - 1988

From: 1987 To: 1988

- appendix 1(a), a list of 90 community groups invited to participate, of which 13 replied; - appendix 1(b) minutes of meetings on future developments in Multicultural Education (ME) held between Local Education Authority (LEA) and various community groups and other organisations; - appendix 1(c) summary of written reply from the Asian Women’s Association, Luton and replies together with LEA summaries of them from the following community groups: Bangladesh Welfare Association, Bedford; Bangladesh Welfare Association, Luton; Bedford Afro-Caribbean Self-Help Association; Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann (Irish cultural association); Dr.Ambedkar Mission Society, Bedford; Federation of Afro-Caribbean Organisations, Luton; Jameh Masjid Gulshan-e-Baghdad, Bedford (a mosque); Miracle Church of God (Afro-Caribbean church); Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of North Bedfordshire (Persian sect founded by Baha’u’llah with no racial division of members); Pakistan Christian Welfare Organisation (UK); Ramgarhia Sikh Society, Bedford; and The Hindu Centre, Bedford; - appendix 2, summaries of replies from 55 nursery/lower/infant/junior schools and 34 middle/upper/high schools and 10 special schools across the county; - appendix 3, replies and LEA summaries of them from four interested groups: Assistant Masters’ & Mistresses’ Association, Bedford branch; Bedford Council for Racial Equality; Luton Council for Mother Tongue Teaching; and National Union of Teachers; - appendix 4(a), draft statements on consultation process and its results; - appendix 4(b), draft analysis of comments received from governing bodies of schools, draft overall strategy for implementation of county ME policy, list of schools to which bilingual resource staff should be allocated for Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali or Gujerati, and further draft statements on ME policy; - report of Chief Education Officer to Schools & Special Services Sub-Committee on ME.

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Assistant Masters and Mistresses Association, Bedfordshire Branch,
National Union of Teachers,
Chief Education Officer

EDUCATION, multicultural education, ethnic minorities, LOCAL GOVERNMENT, business correspondence, ethnic groups societies, Local Education Authority, Asian Women's Association, LUTON, Bangladesh Welfare Association, BEDFORD, Afro-Caribbean Self Help Association, Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann, Dr. Ambedkar Mission Society, Federation of Afro-Caribbean Organisations, mosques, Miracle Church of God, Baha'i, North Bedfordshire, Pakistan Christian Welfare Association, Ramgarhia Sikh Society, Bedford The Hindu Centre, schools, BEDFORDSHIRE, Bedfordshire Branch Assistant Masters and Mistresses Association, Council for Racial Equality, Luton Council for Mother Tongue Teaching, National Union of Teachers, school governors, education staff, LANGUAGE, Urdu, Bengali, Gujerati, Punjabi, Chief Education Officer