The group of 30 students on the SINA course 'Celebrating Global Children', all of whom work in nurseries in Scotland, visited London last week and toured Westminster Children's Society nurseries to find out more about good practice in anti-discriminatory policy.
SINA early years executive Alice Sharp had met June O'Sullivan, Westminster Children's Society's operations and training manager, during a trip to Holland organised by the now-defunct Early Years National Training Organisation to look at children's care in centres established for asylum seekers and refugee families.
Ms O'Sullivan said, 'We kept in touch, and this visit is the culmination of that initial contact. Our visitors were very complimentary. They said that the relationships they observed were very warm, and that the staff were very committed and flexible. Our staff found it interesting to begin to articulate what they do.'
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