Black Voices Network members Mary Andall-Stanberry, Jane Lane, Dalvir Gill, Meryl Shepherd and Haki Kapasi will be delivering a joint keynote speech at the international conference 'Building Peaceable Communities - The Power of Early Childhood', in Amsterdam, on 13 May.
They will share a platform with author and social justice activist Professor Louise Derman-Sparkes, Rina Gill, Associate Director of Policy and Practice at Unicef and Professor Luiz Alberto Olivera Gonçalves, an expert on racial discrimination and educational inequalities in Brazil.
The Network's joint presentation describes how institutionalised racism works at different levels, gives examples of how early years practitioners challenge inequality through creating safe spaces for debate and highlights training that encourages honest discussion around controversial subjects.
The Network is also facilitating an interactive workshop to explore these issues in more detail.
For further information - http://conference.unaglobal.org/home
The Black Voices Network, based in England, is a network of children’s services practitioners bringing together the voluntary and community, government and statutory sectors’ knowledge to influence policy and practice development from an ethnically diverse and racial equality perspective. Through seminars, the network offers a safe space for black and other minority ethnic practitioners to share good practice, learn about new, innovative research and discuss challenges to their career development.
Black Voices Network seeks to become the leading Network in England promoting racial equality through encouraging debate, high quality equality training for all and career development for black practitioners. We want policy makers and service providers to acknowledge racism and commit to eradicating it.
We define 'black' to include people of African, Asian, Caribbean and any other heritage who are at risk of racist discrimination because of skin colour and/or physical features
http://www.ncb.org.uk/ecu_network/bvn/home.aspx
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