1.1 Explain The Role Of Practitioners In Promoting Equality Diversity And Inclusive Practice

All setting will have their own policies and procedures which promote and protect equality, diversity and inclusive practice. It is the practitioner’s responsibility to read and understand this, in order to know what is expected of them and to have an anti-discriminatory work approach in everything they do, challenging discrimination if and when faced with.
In my setting, we plan activities to allow all children to take part, making adaptation for those children with additional needs. We insure that we provide a variety of resources for children to learn and play and using diverse display materials such as numbers in different languages and flags of the countries each child is from.
Within the settings, practitioners are required to work
• Valuing the individual child
All children must be valued individually through interaction with them and their families.
• Developing and sustaining a child-centred approach
It is important to let children make their own choices and decisions, making them feel that they have a sense of control over what they do.
• Engaging actively with the family to appreciate the holistic needs of the child
It is important to have regular contact with families and making them feel welcomed. Working closely with families will help identify additional needs of a child.
• Providing an inclusive environment which actively welcomes diversity
Ensuring diversity is important for all settings. This can be down through displays of ‘welcome’ in different languages, images of children with different disabilities etc.
• Being a positive role model in promoting equality, diversity and inclusive practice
Positive role model for the children is important always. Treating people with respect and kindness.
• Recognising discriminatory