How a toolkit is enabling settings to welcome and support refugees
Academics have devised a new toolkit to help practitioners care for and educate refugee children in...
Equality & Diversity
Nicky Gibson: 'The link between autism and gender diversity needs to be better understood'
Children with autism who are gender-diverse are at risk of intersectional discrimination, so early...
New campaign aims to tackle gender stereotypes in childhood
A new campaign to challenge gender stereotypes and tackle the gender pay gap has been launched.
New research suggests more needs to be done to make children's books truly representative
BookTrust has published new research showing that the percentage of children’s book creators of...
LGBT+ charity forced to clarify 'unclear' tweet suggesting two-year-olds could be transgender
A row has broken out on Twitter over a tweet from LGBT+ charity Stonewall, suggesting that children...
Training Today - New cultures
With the pandemic having a knock-on effect on children’s development and settings’ finances, what...
EYFS Best Practice - All about… Persona Dolls
What is the purpose of Persona Dolls in helping to tackle issues such as diversity, and how do...
Councils urged to create more inclusive and accessible play spaces
Children's charities and play industry bodies are calling on UK councils to create more facilities...
Anti-Racist Leadership: Part 4 - Do I belong?
Is there a culture of anti-racism in your nursery setting? Liz Pemberton considers how managers can...
Anti-racist leadership: part 3 - What we say
Continuing her series on anti-racist leadership, this month, Liz Pemberton focuses on language
Children's books – new for Spring
Karen Hart road tests some new titles with a variety of different aged children and discovers how...
Anti-Racist Leadership: part 2 - Looking inward
When it comes to racism, Liz Pemberton questions how leaders can start conversations around the...
'Nurturing children through an inclusive and diverse lens'
Aaron Bradbury explains how his upcoming event focusing on LGBTQ+ children and families will help...
EYFS activities - Supporting SEND… Problem solving
Ways that practitioners can help support problem-solving skills. Georgina Durrant reports
Anti-Racist Leadership: Part 1 - Think again
In the first part of a new series, Liz Pemberton sets out how early years leaders can instil...
Improve the experiences of autistic children in your nursery
Louise Bull explains what early years professionals need to know about the Government’s new autism...
Children's books: Best of the bunch
Karen Hart takes her pick of the best recent releases. These include Time to get Dressed – part of a...
Thinking about ‘truly inclusive' practice
Reflective practice is vitally important when it comes to addressing unconscious bias in early years...
Giant puppet tours the world to raise awareness of refugee children
A giant puppet of a young refugee girl is travelling from the Syria-Turkey border to the UK to...
Using art therapy to heal trauma
Caroline Vollans discovers how a community art project founded in the wake of the Grenfell Fire...
Just 5 per cent of nursery books feature characters in non-stereotypical gender roles
A new survey has highlighted harmful stereotyping in children's books used in early years settings.
Inclusion: Working with LGBTQ+ Families - Feeling welcome
How early years settings can ensure they are inclusive of LGBTQ+ parents and their children. By...
Best Practice - Be kind
How can adults help to build kindness and co-regulation in children – as well as themselves? Helen...
EYFS activities - Education for Sustainability: Go with the flow
This month, Dr Diane Boyd looks at water and sanitation, including how to make links with a setting...
Resources: New anti-racism guide for early years
Anti-racism and inclusion guidance specifically for early years settings has been launched with the...
Nursery group signs up to code for right of staff to wear Black hairstyles
The Halo Code, which asserts that no Black employee should have to change their natural or...
Rethinking early childhood services - Change from within
The pandemic has highlighted further the challenges faced by the early years sector around diversity...
Inclusion - Deep down?
In this extract from her book, Dr Chandrika Devarakonda explains how racial prejudice develops in...
Inclusion - ‘Wakanda forever!’
One boy’s interest in the Black Panther film shows how stories can help build a secure sense of...
Black History Month: early years curriculum launched in London borough
Children in nurseries and schools across the London borough of Hackney are set to learn about Black...
Race Equality – Our legal duty
A guide to institutionalised racism and the legal duty of settings to promote race equality. By...
Eradicating racism in the early years sector
Dr Sharon Curtis and Jane Lane, on behalf of a group of early years participants, say that there is...
Inclusion - Let’s talk about race
To open up conversations about race, and challenge racism, we need to understand the central issues...
#StandUpForEarlyYears: learning about peaceful protests
Easton Community Children's Centre talked to children about recent protests and being kind to...
Actually, it does matter
With the spotlight on protests around the world against racism, educators and the early years sector...
Picturebooks, part 6 - Mirrors and windows
We are all beautifully different – so it is important for children to see themselves and others...
Inclusion: An essential guide to… intersectionality
Gender discrimination can disadvantage women, but what happens when it overlaps with other factors...
All about… social isolation
Early years settings are helping to solve loneliness in their local areas by making links to...
Mum creates 'Elf on the shelf' campaign to highlight Christmas challenges for children with autism
A parent-blogger is using the popular Elf on the Shelf Christmas tradition to raise awareness of...
£18m extension to Opportunity Area programme
The Government has announced additional funding for its Opportunity Area programme which will now...
Inclusion - Supporting… Courtney
How one setting in Southampton is helping a girl and her mother, who struggles with literacy. By...
Managing Equality and Diversity, Part 9: Poverty - Poor chance
How are some settings providing the extra support that disadvantaged children need, asks Gabriella...
Inclusion - My story
Why it is important for early years settings to understand the particular issues for children with...
Inclusion - Free to choose
How can settings ensure that boys and girls are given equal and unbiased opportunity to take part in...
Ofsted: Cultural Capital - A capital idea?
Reference to ‘cultural capital’ in the draft Education Inspection Framework has sparked a number of...
Child Development: Intersex - Born and raised
Children born intersex or with differences of sex development are an often misunderstood subject....
Inclusion: Supporting… Hamza
With few language skills and problems socialising and taking part in activities, Hamza required...
Inclusion - Supporting… Jaipreet
How one nursery in the West Midlands helped a Punjabi-speaking girl become a confident talker in...
Inclusion: Gender - The fight continues
There is still much more to be done to redress gender inequality, and it starts in the early years....
A Unique Child: Inclusion - Rigid thinking
Is your nursery space working for or against gender diversity? Dr Jen Lyttleton-Smith examines why...
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