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Broadly, schools' contribution to community cohesion can be grouped under the three following headings:
Teaching, learning and curriculum - helping children and young people to learn to understand others, to value diversity whilst also promoting shared values, to promote awareness of human rights and to apply and defend them, and to develop the skills of participation and responsible action - for example through the new ‘Identity and Diversity: living together in the UK' strand within citizenship education.
Equity and excellence - to ensure equal opportunities for all to succeed at the highest level possible, striving to remove barriers to access and participation in learning and wider activities and working to eliminate variations in outcomes for different groups.
Engagement and extended services - to provide reasonable means for children, young people, their friends and families to interact with people from different backgrounds and build positive relations: including links with different schools and communities and the provision of extended service with opportunities for pupils, families and the wider community to take part in activities and receive services which build positive interaction and achievement for all groups.
(extract from Guidance on the duty on schools to promote community cohesion, DCSF, 2007)
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