The teams work with schools and other partners to enhance the integration, inclusion, empowerment, achievement and well-being of all minority ethnic pupils.

The teams within the Ethnic Minority Services are:

• The Asylum Seeker Support Team, which works to ensure that Asylum Seeker and Refugee children have access to effective provision that meets their emotional and learning needs. This team is funded by a combination of sources being the Local Authority, EMAG and Children’s Fund.  The team has five members: team leader, project officer, family support officer, advisory teacher and home-school liaison officer
• Black Achievement Team, which works with schools to address issues related to Black pupils. The team is currently working intensively with 4 Secondary and 4 Primary Schools on the Secondary BPAP (Black Pupils Attainment Programme) and 3 primary schools on the Primary BCAP (Black Children’s Achievement Programme). This team is funded by EMAG and NRF has three members – all consultants
• EAL Team, which works with schools to support them in meeting the needs of pupils learning EAL (English as an additional language). This team is funded by EMAG and NRF has 1.0 fte consultants (currently vacant) and 3.2 fte advisory teachers, who work with schools that do not receive EMAG funding.
• The Traveller Team which works to ensure that Gypsy & Traveller children have access to school and to appropriate learning opportunities. This team is funded by the local authority and EMAG and has a team leader, 1.0 fte teacher, 1.0 liaison worker and 0.3fte EWO along with 1.0 administrator
• Eracism course provider who works with schools to deliver the “Eracism course” which helps pupils in year 5 to address racism. This post is funded by EMAG

EMAG (Ethnic Minority Achievement Grant)

Objectives

EMAG is one of the DfES Standards funds and is devolved to schools on the basis of a locally agreed formula. About 62 Nottingham schools receive this funding. The purposes of the grant are:

To enable strategic managers in schools and LEAs to lead whole school change to narrow achievement gaps and ensure equality of outcomes;

To meet the costs of some of the additional support to meet the specific needs of bilingual learners and under-achieving pupils.

The Black Achievement and EAL consultants are funded by EMAG and they work with schools to ensure the effective use of EMAG funding, supporting them in drawing up effective action plans, timetabling arrangement, targeting pupils and setting appropriate targets, assessing pupils and, in particular, in developing effective classroom strategies that will meet the language learning needs of pupils learning English as an additional language or which will enhance the achievement of Black pupils.

Each consultant has a number of link schools that they visit frequently and in some of these schools they work in partnership with mainstream and EMAG funded staff within the classroom to development materials and approaches.