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Know how to access information, advice and support about diversity, equality and inclusion

This video on ‘Fostering diversity and inclusion’ is from the Ohio Department of Education. What benefits can you see in the way this setting is organised? How does your setting promote diversity and inclusion? Where can you get advice and support to improve how you promote diversity and inclusion?

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Find out what sources of information, advice and support about diversity, equality and inclusion are available in your local area.
‘Improving equality, diversity and inclusion in your workplace’ from Acas, the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service
‘Advice and support’ from the Equality Advisory Service (EASS)
‘Workplace guidance’ on the TUC website
‘Equality, diversity and rights’ from the Childhood First Institute

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Click on the icon to the left to access this excellent document from children’s charity Save the Children, about promoting positive representations of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller culture in early years settings.
Click to read ‘Gypsy, Roma and Traveller experiences in Secondary Education: Issues, barriers and recommendations’ from The Traveller Movement to find more about the barriers to inclusion and equality.
Click on the icon to the left to read the ‘All of Us’ Inclusion Checklist for Settings, produced by the charity ‘Kids’.
Take time to make yourself familiar with various cultures, unique needs, dietary requirements, and special needs for each child or young person you work with. Make a note of your findings and take some time to research them, using the internet, any books or leaflets at your setting or in the local library, the knowledge of your colleagues and, most importantly, the parents of the children themselves.

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