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Hertfordshire BME Advocacy Service

Project Co-ordinator: Hema Devlukia
Watford Race Equality
149 The Parade
Watford WD1 1NA

Tel: 01923 254400
Email:hema.devlukia@watfordcvs.net

Every year in Hertfordshire, nearly 2000 incidences involving racial or religious discrimination are reported.  Children can face discrimination because of their colour, religion, language, ethnicity or being from a different culture. 

The discrimination might include verbal or non-verbal abuse, graffiti, exclusion, differential treatment or victimisation. 

Herts BME Advocacy service is an independent, free, confidential countywide service which works with communities and agencies to ensure that school environments are free from discrimination or harassment, helping children to feel safe and supported in order to meet their full potential.

Who can we help?

• Parents and children from black and minority ethnic communities including  European communities, Traveller communities, refugee and asylum seeker communities
• Anyone who perceives themselves as being discriminated against because of their religion, colour, ethnicity, language and culture.

How we can help families

We can:

• listen, support and advise families
• help families to have their views represented
• help raise and resolve any concern parents and children have about racial, religious or cultural disadvantages experienced in schools

We can provide the service in an alternative language if the family’s first language is not English. 

How can we help schools?

• we can add rigour , purpose and credibility to existing good practise
• we can help underpin and safeguard your commitment to equality

Why are we important to schools?

• In support of HCC commitment we aim to work with communities and agencies to create school environments “free from discrimination or harassment …. And make certain that children that children are safe and supported to meet their full potential.”

• Ofsted inspectors will want to see evidence that children are being “educated for life in a diverse society” that pupils are “free from bullying and racism” and that schools “ promote racial harmony
• Schools have a legal duty to promote race equality and must pay “due regard to the need to eliminate unlawful racial discrimination.

Herts BME Advocacy service is important

• Because education is important
• Because equality is important
• Because all children deserve to feel safe, enjoy learning experience, make a positive contribution and achieve their potential

For more information, contact Hema Devlukia on 01923 254400 or 07500 780692 or visit the website:

• http://hertsBMEadvocacy.org