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: Here you will find resources to support practitioners and settings with introducing, understanding and embedding anti-racist practice.
Welsh Government has a vision of creating a ‘More Equal Wales’, where Wales is a country that is proudly anti-racist and where everyone is treated as an equal citizen.
NDNA Cymru aims to support our members to provide quality early years, childcare and playwork opportunities which embed core values in relation to race, equality and diversity and impacts positivity on outcomes for children and their families.
Supporting resources:
Guide to Good Practice Tackling Racism
NDNA Cymru factsheet supporting settings with addressing issues of racism and of promoting inclusion, equality and diversity within your setting.
Race Equity and Anti-Racist Professional Practice
NDNA Cymru resource to support early years leaders and practitioners to develop through individual professional learning, self-enquiry and collaborative thinking with their peers and working communities.
Bulletin: diversity and anti-racism factsheet
This NDNA Cymru bulletin outlines the requirements relating to diversity within the Curriculum for Wales and signposts to resources that can support practitioners with their daily practice.
‘The Colour of Us’: using books and stories to explore diversity and inclusion
This NDNA Cymru factsheet explores why using books and stories to explore diversity and inclusion is beneficial to children’s learning and development. It also includes questions and discussion ideas from ‘The Colour of Us’ book, which could support children to explore and discuss the concept of skin colour.
Diversity and Anti-Racist Professional Learning (DARPL) – Childcare, Play and Early Years (CPEY)
In Childcare, Play and Early Years Provision, we need to ensure anti-racist actions to safeguard the wellbeing of all. DARPL for Childcare, Play and Early Years provision in Wales supports professional practice in tackling racism, exploring commitment, actions and strategy at all levels of the workforce.
Creating an Anti-Racist Culture in Settings Guide – a practical toolkit for those working in Childcare, Play and Early Years in Wales
This toolkit, developed by DARPL and CWLWM, has been designed to help, guide and support the development of a whole-setting approach towards being anti-racist. The support pack is not intended to be used as box ticking exercise but to support ongoing reflective practice and improvement.
The toolkit includes guidance on:
- Governance and Leadership
- Setting the floor/ environment
- Parents and Carers
- Professional Learning
- Early Childhood Play, Learning and Care; Curriculum, pedagogy and practice
The toolkit also includes case studies from the sector, such as NDNA member CWTCH Childcare, Cardiff.