Understanding Racism and Anti Racist Practice

This training is aimed at professionals across the children’s society teaching them how to deal with issues relating to racism and how to promote anti-racist practice. The training is split into two sessions to allow Delegates time to process the information from the morning session before embarking on the afternoon session which aims to empower delegates to critique/adapt and support the development current/future processes within the children’s society.

The morning session is information based and will cover several topics designed to enable Delegates to begin to think about some of the wider systemic concepts attached to race and racism including:

• Exploration of racism and power dynamics
• Move beyond debates regarding unconscious bias and cultural competence
• Exploration of white privilege and white fragility

The afternoon session is interactive, and Delegates will be set a series of tasks and put into breakout rooms to discuss their reflections from the morning session and to begin to think how to they can become anti-racist practitioners by:

• Exploring the barriers to promoting equality, anti-discriminatory practice and tackling racism within the children’s society
• Enabling them to recognise racist incidents and explore how to respond to them most effectively

The aim is to encourage participants to embed and engage in anti-racist practice and to extend the learning on reflect on practice in relation to work with children and young people

All delegates receive a comprehensive handout and certificate of participation