CRE Launches Web Pages for Teachers


The CRE has today launched Teaching about slavery, an on-line resource for all secondary and primary school teachers. The web pages will for the first time, pull together a range of materials to assist teachers when covering issues relating to the Transatlantic Slave Trade (TST).

The website will assist in the teaching of TST and wider black history issues. The pages have been created as part of the first stage of a wider CRE initiative to develop cross-curricula teaching resources on the TST for teachers, which will be available later this year.

The CRE curriculum project forms part of the CREs contribution to mark the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. Through this initiative the CRE aims to ensure that 2007 leaves a lasting educational legacy, by exploring the impact this episode in history has left in terms of contemporary race relations, in Britain and world wide.

CRE Head of Citizenship and Integration, Hazel Baird said:
This site will provide a valuable and easily accessible source of information for teachers, which we hope will encourage them to begi n to engage with pupils about these issues. Using these resources, and developing good practice when exploring these topics, will lead to greater understanding of contemporary race relations and wider debates about citizenship, identity and belonging.

The pages also include links to other events to mark the Bicentenary during 2007, as well as websites on wider black history issues. Teachers are also invited to add further resources they have found of use on these themes to the site at: www.cre.gov.uk


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The Race Relations Act 1976 makes it unlawful to discriminate against anyone on grounds of race, colour, and nationality, ethnic or national origins. The Commission for Racial Equality was established under the Act to work for the elimination of discrimination, the promotion of equality of opportunity and good race relations generally.

The CRE can advise or assist people with cases before courts and employment tribunals and can conduct its own investigations when it has grounds to believe discrimination may be taking place.

Public bodies have a duty to eliminate discrimination in the way they work and to promote equality of opportunity and good race relations. The CRE is working to help them deliver this duty.