Equality, Diversity and Inclusive practice in an early years setting.

• Early Years
• Further Education (Key Stage 5)

Equality, Diversity and Inclusive practice in an early years setting.

Explain the term 'equality'

What is 'inclusion?'

What is 'diversity?'

Explain the term 'discrimination'

Inclusion in the 

Early Years sector:

• Individual providers have a responsibility to adept and implement approaches to promote inclusion
• Is about upskilling staff to work inclusively and evaluating your own practice 
• Socially settings should value the power of working collaboratively across the entire early years sector to promote best practice for all children, staff and families

• Settings should continually address the challenge of ensuring commitment to inclusion and make sure it runs throughout their organization.
• Inclusion isn't something that is solely reliant on policy and processes but is should be ingrained in the organizational culture, both within the nurseries and in the professional team.
• Settings should avoid tokenistic tick boxing exercises, as these can create an illusion of inclusion whilst being detrimental to it. 

Inclusion

Recruitment process is should be continuously reviewed to ensure that these are accessible to all.

   

This includes a consideration of:

• marketing campaigns
  
• value based interviews
  
• interview processes
  

Recruiting in line with inclusivity - fair and open competition

Teaching to support inclusion 

When reflecting on the inclusivity of our teaching it is important to consider:

• How we lead the children to learn
  
• Our view of the child
  
• Our understanding of the rights of the child
• How we meaningfully offer our children voice 

Inclusion is more than just celebrating festivals and providing resources in your nursery. It should be structured into everything that you do and built through the values of your setting. It should include giving the children and their families a voice.

• Does every child feel valued and included.
• Does every parent feel welcome in your setting.
• Inclusion shouldn't just be focused on single activities but embedded throughout.
• Inclusion reflects a diverse team: men, different races people with disabilities right down to how you market the images for the jobs in your setting.
• CPD - Staff training should reflect equality and diversity and inclusive practice.
• Bilingual training: Makaton, Pecks, multi lingual.

Sam, Jason, Laura and Fatima are playing in the role play area. The nursery teacher asks Sam and Jason to tidy away the train set and trucks and asks Laura and Fatima to put away the dolls and tidy the home corner.

What is the assumption here?

Shereen Talks About Racism

She illustrates how regardless of the colour of skin, shape or taste of apples, apples are all apples. Like people, regardless of the colour of our skin, we are all people.

Equality, diversity and inclusion should be part of every settings ethos. Through showing that we value all individuals, whether they are parents, staff or children in the setting, we can be role models to show that the differences should be celebrated and that everyone should be respected.