The conference, 'Not a Black and White Issue: Promoting Positive Attitudes to Race and Culture with Children and Young People', was organised by the Valleys Anti-Racist Initiative, a recently-formed coalition of representatives from the voluntary sector and local authorities. It highlighted practical ways of tackling the growing problem of racial abuse and bullying in south Wales, where black and Asian children are a very small minority of the population.
Mike Lewis, policy director of Children in Wales, said, 'Robust research has shown that children can put values on different skin colour from as young as two and that they can absorb information before they learn to speak. It's important that they learn from an early age.'
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