CES Community Cohesion Survey

The responses to the CES Community Cohesion survey - initially carried out in December 2006 in partnership with diocesan officers - have been used to inform our conversations with a number of groups in the public sphere, including the Government.  For example, case studies drawn from the responses have formed part of our input to the Government’s guidance on the Duty to Promote Community Cohesion (2007) http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/docbank/index.cfm?id=11635 and to the Runnymede Trust’s high profile research project on the same subject (2007-2008).  We have used the information in order to identify speakers for national events and to contribute to media stories about the Church's engagement with local communities.

The case studies also formed the background to the case studies section of our own document, published in February 2008, Catholic Schools and Community Cohesion: CES Guidance www.cesew.org.uk/communitycohesion.

When we can supply such evidence of good practice, we are better able to show that Catholic schools make an important contribution to the local, national and international communities in which they are located.  This is vital at a time when we face much hostility to the concept of schools with a religious character.

If you have yet to fill in the survey or can update us on your activities we would be delighted to hear from you as we continue in our work to promote and support Catholic education.  Download the survey below.

Please send to Laura McCann, Policy & Briefing Officer, copying your local diocesan officers into the correspondence:

e: lmccann@cesew.org.uk

t: 0207 901 4894

f: 0207 901 4893

CES, 39 Eccleston Square, London SW1V 1BX.