Association of Colleges

Community cohesion consultation published

11 February 2008

The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills has published its consultation on 'the role of further education providers in promoting community cohesion, fostering shared values and preventing violent extremism'.

To read the full document please see   The role of FE providers in promoting community cohesion - consultation .

Sue Dutton, AoC Acting Chief Executive, said:

“Organisations such as colleges, schools and universities have a duty to their students and to society at large to promote community cohesion. This guidance contributes to continuing college efforts to take all appropriate action for fostering shared community values, including dealing with extremism in any form.”

"Colleges have a responsibility to work with their local community partners to contribute to the cohesion of their local area, and we know that many take this very seriously and that there is lots of good practice in place.

"We have worked with Ministers to prepare this document, which explores an imporant new dimension to this work which we feel it is important for all those in a leadership position within a college to consider.

"This is a consultation document and, as such, represents the start of a process of reaching an understanding of the best way to address the issues this document raises."

 

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