In Bristol many Somali and african parents have just received their allocation for year 7.Places at secondary school.

this year as last year many Somali parents have failed to get any of their frist three choices and the situation is so bad that they feel they are being discriminated against and the grounds of race.

African parents called a meeting with paul jacobson diractor of Bristol city council education department who presented to them a number of measures they were taking to raise the achievement of Somali pupils in Bristol.

This includeded more black role models as teachers in schools and gucouraging black teachers to take on a leadership role.

However this was a year ago after the 2017 admission were announced and nothing has changed, paul jacobson proudly announced that there ware 2 somali in his department.when asked if they were in leadership positions, he admitted that both were Cleaner’s.