As a service we are committed to equality in both employment and in delivering our service. We recognise the diverse nature of Renfrewshire and endeavour to ensure that employees, partners, families and young people are treated with sensitivity, understanding and respect. The council opposes all forms of discrimination and undertakes not to discriminate unfairly on the grounds of age, race, pregnancy and maternity, marriage and civil partnership, gender reassignment, disability, sexual orientation, sex, religion or belief, responsibility for dependents, social or economic status or criminal record. Every possible step will take into account the diverse nature of individuals and ensure that they are treated fairly and decisions on service delivery and employment are based on objective criteria.<\/p>\n
As a result of our attendance and contribution to the SDEP Anti-Racist network, we have committed to become an Anti-Racist EP service. We acknowledge that racism exists and is both an individual and structural issue with pervasive effects in our society that extends beyond the conscious thoughts and behaviours of individuals. We have established an Equalities working party within REPS where we have agreed to focus our work on Anti-Racism reflection and skills development for EPs (and our trainees).<\/p>\n
We aspire to develop a shared conceptual understanding about what racism and anti-racism is in REPS, we want to be able to self-reflect on our own behaviours and biases and the impact of our implicit biases on our stakeholders. In relation to being anti-racist, we want to feel confident that we have the skills and tools to challenge and question biases and racial discrimination. As a service we aim to create a safe space for difficult conversations and an existing nurturing relationship-based ethos underpins our practice. We are also looking into further developing our policies and guidelines to reflect an Anti-Racist values.<\/p>\n
Session 2025-26 saw the REPS Equalities SIP group lead our 4th year of Anti-Racist implementation in REPS. As we have continued our Anti-Racism learning, a key focus this year has been how we translate our learning in Anti-Racist action in our EP practice. We have therefore focussed on embedding Anti-Racism across practice and service structures. We have worked at varying levels to support Anti-Racist action; the level of the EPS, LA and nationally.<\/p>\n
We now have examples of pockets of work where EPs have supported schools with their Anti-Racist approaches such as through supporting use of the Cultural Competence tool, developing an Anti-Racist resource bank for establishments, awareness raising, critical literacy input and a train the trainer model being piloted in one school. We have also had school-level work published in the Educational Psychology in Scotland journal. We have also enhanced our body of research in the field of immigration, asylum seeking\/ refugee experiences and racial trauma -in a context of increasing racial tensions locally and nationally. This has been presented nationally.<\/p>\n
In developing our equalities knowledge and practices, we have also begun a focus on LGBT learning, which will continue to progress through session 2026-27. To enhance an intersectional approach to our equalities practice, REPs accessed LGBTQ inclusive education training delivered by Time for Inclusive Education (TIE).<\/p>\n
Please use the tabs in this section to find resources developed by the REPS equalities team and national resources which we have contributed to.<\/p>\n
Establishments supporting children and young people for whom English is not their first language, may find it useful to explore the English as an Additional Language service website here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As a service we are committed to equality in both employment and in delivering our service. We recognise the diverse nature of Renfrewshire and endeavour to ensure that employees, partners, families and young people are treated with sensitivity, understanding and respect. The council opposes all forms of discrimination and undertakes not to discriminate unfairly on … Continue reading “Equalities”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8089,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-986","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/renfrewshireedpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/renfrewshireedpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/renfrewshireedpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/renfrewshireedpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8089"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/renfrewshireedpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/renfrewshireedpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1096,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/renfrewshireedpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/986\/revisions\/1096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/renfrewshireedpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}