Patrick Roach told CYP Now that many schools operate an ad hoc approach to reporting and dealing with racism, despite having a legal duty to report all incidents to their local authority.
He said the issue of under-reporting and racist bullying emerged through NASUWT consultations with teachers. "Issues about the number of incidents and the way they are dealt with come up time and time again to the point where it cannot be a coincidence," he said.
Roach said Ofsted and local authorities must do more to make sure schools take their legal duty to report racist incidents seriously.
"From our own cursory reviews of Ofsted reports we can't see much about how schools deal with racism," he said. "Local authorities are by far and away the biggest employers of teachers, they also have a duty to record and report incidents of bullying."
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