Legislation and the new national standards for under-eights daycare and childminding state that providers must promote anti-discriminatory practice. But what exactly is it? And how do providers set about putting it into practice?
Anti-discriminatory practice can be defined as an approach to working with young children that promotes:
* Diversity and the valuing of all differences A setting whose practice is anti-discriminatory will celebrate and value differences in identities, cultures, religions, abilities and social practices.
* Self-esteem and positive group identity A setting will recognise the impact of discrimination, the social inequalities and their effect on young children and their families. Such a setting will identify and remove practices and procedures that discriminate.
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