CSIE was honoured to be invited on to Voice of Islam, a national radio station, to discuss a recent rise in exclusions for racism in primary schools. CSIE’s director, Dr Artemi Sakellariadis, was interviewed on Voice of Islam’s Breakfast Show yesterday, Monday 13th January, along with Paul Kearns, Deputy Chief Executive of Show Racism the Red Card. The programme was responding to a recent BBC analysis revealing that, whilst the number of exclusions because of racism across all schools in England had decreased in the decade 2006/7-2017/8, the number of primary-school exclusions for racism had dramatically risen.

As well as sharing CSIE’s history and aims, Dr Sakellariadis answered questions on possible reasons behind this increase and on whether exclusions represent effective solutions to expressions of racism in schools. Yesterday’s breakfast show is now available online, CSIE’s director is interviewed from 1:26 onwards. We would like to thank the Voice of Islam for the invitation to speak on this programme, giving us a chance to share our work and our perspective with the radio station’s national audience.