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Respect and resilience: Developing community cohesion – a common understanding for schools and their communities

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'Respect and resilience: Developing community cohesion – a common understanding for schools and their communities' sets out the role that schools have in developing and supporting strategic approaches to promoting and maintaining community cohesion and preventing violent extremism. The guidance builds on current policy and practice.

Much of the work all schools will be doing already but it will enable schools to review their work as part of their process of self evaluation.

The guidance is extensive and schools will need to differentiate their response depending on how well developed their work is with respect to the development of community cohesion. The guidance is consistent with the principles of the School Effectiveness Framework and relates the recommended