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Tackling racism early in the early years

It was 1990 and the Children Act (1989) was starting to be implemented.

It felt like an exciting time. The beginning of some significant changes, an empowerment of children, and the assertion of a moral purpose in working with children. The act was a response to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. This was the beginning of my career, fresh out of university. I was excited about how I could change the world, to make my difference to the children and families I was working with. My fire had been ignited by some amazing equalities training when I worked at Leicester City Council. Coupled with my own personal experiences of discrimination, I began to think there was a lifetime career in this.

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