EDI is about more than ensuring everyone is included – it is about creating a culture where every child, family and colleague feels they belong.
Course Overview
This course is about how you create, model and sustain an inclusive culture through your role as a leader. It moves beyond treating equality, diversity and inclusion as a policy to tick off, and looks at the everyday leadership behaviours that make every child, family and colleague feel they truly belong.
You will explore what equality, diversity and inclusion actually mean in an early years setting, how unconscious bias shows up in everyday decisions, and how to have the courageous conversations that challenge it. You will also look at practical ways to review your setting and keep improving, not as a one-off initiative but as part of how you lead every day.
By the end of this course, you will have a clear, practical model for embedding EDI through continuous improvement, and the confidence to address bias and exclusion when you see it.
Who Is This For?
This course is for:
- Nursery Managers
- Deputy Managers
- Room Leaders
- Senior Practitioners
- Aspiring Leaders
- Anyone responsible for modelling and embedding an inclusive culture within a team
If you want every child, family and colleague in your setting to feel they genuinely belong, not just that they are included, this course is for you.
What Will You Do?
Throughout this course, you will:
- Understand what equality, diversity and inclusion mean in practice, not just in theory
- Recognise unconscious bias and how it can shape everyday decisions
- Practise having courageous conversations that challenge bias and exclusion
- Reflect honestly on where your practice sits right now
- Review your environment, curriculum, routines and communication through an inclusion lens
- Build a culture of continuous improvement rather than one-off EDI initiatives
What Are the Benefits?
By completing this course, you will:
- Lead a setting where every child and family feels they belong
- Feel confident addressing bias, stereotypes and exclusion when you see them
- Build a team that reflects on its own assumptions rather than repeating them
- Improve outcomes for children by identifying barriers to learning early
- Strengthen relationships with families from all backgrounds and circumstances
- Meet the professional and statutory responsibilities set out in the EYFS
How Can You Seek Help?
If you would like support embedding equality, diversity and inclusion within your team, contact the Always Growing team at info@alwaysgrowing.co.uk.
We are committed to helping leaders build settings where every child, family and colleague feels they belong.