The irony is not lost on Ajegbo; we're due to discuss the new community cohesion standards for schools that, as chair of the Education Practitioner Group, he helped to draw up (Children Now, 22-28 September).
In part a response to the 2001 race riots in Bradford, Oldham and Burnley, the standards are designed to help schools promote race equality under the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000.
But will schools actually read them? They're "short and curt", a quick reference point, for precisely this reason, says Ajegbo, who describes the standards as a "baseline" against which schools can evaluate their own practice.
However, he admits that not all schools will take notice of the standards unless they're part of Ofsted's inspection framework, although Ofsted says its next update to inspectors will make them aware of the guidelines (Children Now, 20-26 October).
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