DARPL Enhanced Leadership Series for the childcare, play and early years sector

The Enhanced Leadership Series (ELS) aims are to provide the childcare, play and early years (CPEY) cohort of leaders and practitioners with the opportunity to:

• recognise the value and importance of anti-racist professional learning as a continuum across early years, childcare and playwork
• enable an appreciation of new ways of working for sustainable active critical change through anti-racist professional leadership
• share peer to peer experiences through dialogue for community of practice development
• enable leaders to develop/contribute to strategic plans aligned with Prof. Charlotte Williams’ report recommendations and Welsh Government Anti-Racist Wales Action Plan (ARWAP)
• use and co-construct tools and resources to critically appraise and inform their own organisational culture
• explore and develop racial literacy.

On successful completion of the DARPL Enhanced Leadership Series, the CPEY cohort will be equipped to:

• recognise anti-racist leadership and professional practice
• raise awareness through extended authentic self-reflection including explorations of whiteness, power dynamics in leadership and professional practice
• define (within their own professional context) key practices of anti-racist leadership and race equity
• lead/engender safe and brave spaces within their organisations/professional practice through policy and practice reform
• create materials, policy, and resources to support anti-racist professional practice and wellbeing
• implement professional learning through in the context of their own work
• investigate the challenges/barriers that exist for leaders when shifting from generic inclusive practice to anti-racist whole organisational culture
• develop critical thinking on race equity in practice.