How your resources should be audited to ensure anti-racist practice in the setting , how can we ensure that our practice goes beyond having Black dolls and a range of different coloured crayons. How do we move towards a whole team approach to continuously work towards creating an anti-racist environment?
This is the third in a series of three sessions on Explaining race in the EYFS setting.
Liz Pemberton (she/her) is the Director of The Black Nursery Manager Ltd - a training & consultancy company which focuses on anti-racist practice within Early Years. With 16 years in the education sector, Liz’s roles have included Secondary School Teacher (QTS), public speaker and up until 2020, Nursery Manager, allowing her to teach, manage, support and educate Early Years students, practitioners and professionals in a variety of forums.
Her mission is to promote inclusive practice in the Early Years (under 5’s) education sector, with a particular focus on how race, culture and ethnicity should be considered in this practice. During her career, Liz has developed a fantastic network of likeminded practitioners and professionals, broadening her focus from Nursery Management to sharing her expertise through media.
Liz was awarded the 2022 Guardian Angel award at the Glomama Awards and the 2021 Community Unsung She-ro award at the Multicultural Business & Community Champion Awards (MBCC). She is delivering CPD webinars, working closely with Local Authorities to consult on developing anti-racist strategy and collaborating with Early Years organisations to promote best practice in this area, as she knows that this is important and urgent work that we all need to do.
