Show Us You Care: exploring the cumulative impact of racism upon racialised young people in the Welsh education system
Published on 1 April, 2021.
This research report aims to explore the cumulative impact of racism in education upon racialised young people in Wales, through retrospective accounts of young people reflecting on their education journeys.
We are very fortunate in many ways in Wales. Thinking about education, Welsh Government has devolved powers to shape and develop education in a way that is distinct from other nations in the United Kingdom. Thinking about children and young people, Wales led the way in adopting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) part of its domestic law - the first country in the UK to do so! We also have the first, and only, Future Generations Commissioner, ‘acting today for a better tomorrow’, to build the Wales we want. Nevertheless, racialised children and young people continue to experience racism in its many forms in education in Wales, in some cases infringing upon their human rights.