Under the EYFS, all providers must have and implement an effective equality of opportunity policy. Good practice highlights how children, from a very young age, can learn to place a value on different races, cultures and disabilities.
Staff at the Little Tug Boat Day Nursery in Fulham, London, are very aware of this and work hard to encourage the children in their care to develop good attitudes towards differences of race, culture, language, religion, gender, disability, parental attitudes and changing family patterns.
'We help our children to learn that everyone has a right to be treated with equal respect,' says co-owner and manager Sadie De Domenico.
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