Community Cohesion is a new duty for schools to address. Further details of the requirement and ways in which some schools have approached this issue will be posted as soon as the material becomes available.  The site below is the Local Government web-page for community cohesion. It gives guidance for this new legal obligation.

http://www.neighbourhood.gov.uk/page.asp?id=1200

The Community Cohesion team is a government unit under Ted Cantle which produces some very good material. Unfortunately, it is all copyrighted and so the materials cannot be shown on this web-site. However, a link to its web-site is legal. You will probably find it useful if you are thinking of producing some guidance for schools on this statutory duty. If you have done so or produce something, then please contact me through the web-site. I can put it on this page for sharing.

http://www.lga.gov.uk/Documents/Publication/communitycohesionactionguide.pdf

Below is a web link to the NAS/UWT position on social cohesion. The article gives an overview of the situation in Britain and is helpful in putting the issues into context

 http://www.nasuwt.org.uk/Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=73506

The BRITKID website developed by Chris Gaine is a very useful resource for developing awareness of different cultural and social groups/individuals. It focuses on different characters all from different ethnicities in a school and they discuss topical in a way that relates to young people's lives.  It can be used in Enlgish, PSHE and Citizenship lessons and if you are creative in other curriculum areas as well. 

The web link is: http://www.britkid.org