4. Debate: Tackling Racism and Racial Inequality

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:57 pm on 7 May 2019.

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Photo of Helen Mary Jones Helen Mary Jones Plaid Cymru 3:57, 7 May 2019

Thank you very much, John. Would you agree with me that it’s really important that we help teach our children, through schools, how to be that positive bystander, how to effectively step in and intervene when you see something is going wrong? Because it can be very difficult, I think, when you’ve got peer pressure, you’ve perhaps got a group of people, and it’s very difficult for you to be the one voice that says, ‘Stop it’, whether that’s about sexism, racism or whatever. So, I think it’s really important, as the new curriculum comes in, that that element of good citizenship—that we work on giving those young people those skills, with a clear understanding that if it happens in an institutional setting like a school, they’ll be backed up.