Reporting incidents
The document below contains a hate incident recording form and a pathway summary chart for action to be taken.
The working party’s aims are to support our service and the early years sector with:
- Supporting colleagues, children and families to identify and challenge racism and discrimination
- Promoting equality, diversity and inclusion among our staff and by championing the rights and needs of children and adults in the communities we serve.
- Working within the Equality Act to ensure that everyone is treated fairly based on their protected characteristics.
- Sharing key messages and resources that promote equality, inclusion and diversity
- Supporting anti-racist practice in the early years
Bitesize videos
- Black Lives Matter (BLM) – Starting the conversation
The following links are the you tube videos mentioned in the starting the conversation bitesize which will help you develop your knowledge further:
- James Corden gets a lesson on white privilege
- Social inequalities explained in a $100 race
- I interrupted a racist joke
Audits and toolkits
- Tiney inclusive guide – becoming an inclusive anti-racist early educator
- An Ethnicity Allies Guide to Getting it Right
A toolkit for practitioners working with children and young people.
Key messages for parents
Audio and video
- John Lewis Partnership – It's Not OK (subtitled)
- IslingtonCS – Black Lives Matter: EY Resources
- Show Racism the Red Card
- Barnado's blog page – White privilege - a guide for parents
- The Tapestry Education Conference: Reflecting on Anti-racism in the Early Years
Adults resources
- LGBTQIA+ Early years website
- Aaron Bradbury resource bank – There is an equality, diversity and inclusion section
- The black nursery manager – website and Instagram
- Everyday racism – Instagram
- Books that inspire young minds – Instagram
- Listening as a way of life NCB series – Are equalities an issue?
Finding out what children think – Nicky Road - Listening as a way of life NCB series – Listening and responding to young children’s views on food
Ann-Marie McAuliffe with Jane Lane - Helping young children to think about race in the early years – Anna Freud National Centre
Children's resources
- All about Diversity by Felicity Brookes Mar Ferrero – ISBN-13 : 978-1474986649
- Children’s Empowerment in Play by Natalie Canning – ISBN : 1138322296
- My Skin, Your Skin: An early introduction to Race and Racism – Laura Henry-Allain ISBN-13 : 978-0241512739