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Anti-Racist Training & Consultancy in the Early Years Sector. Liz (She/Her)

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19/09/2026

Happy Saturday, here are some long rambling reflections about yesterday and the purpose of my work …I’m trying to write more about these moments and I cba to start a Substack 😂💫🙇🏾‍♂️❤️

09/09/2026

Building the confidence to TALK about how race, ethnicity and culture as part of children’s intersecting identity markers can impact their sense of self formed the basis of the session that I delivered to the lovely team at Cherry Blossom Pre School in Cheltenham yesterday.

In June 2025, the setting received recognition from the Department for Education and Gloucestershire County Council Early Years Service, specifically their services to enhance inclusive practice for children. That included their parent partnership, inclusive environment, and support for children with SEND. What I admired was that their manager reached out to me because despite this recognition she had realised that there was still a gap in their practice which was to develop their knowledge around anti-racism that was the journey we started yesterday.

I’ve said this before but it’s worth saying again - Inclusive practice and how we talk about it in the early years sector has become synonym for SEND without any consideration of any other tenets of inclusion. Being a reflective nursery manager is about being able to recognise what can strengthen your practice even when you have external validation that indicates you are doing well. I think that those managers that ask “what could we be doing better ?” and then choose to engage with anti-racist practice are the managers who are truly making a difference for all of their children and I love that for them (and me!)

Thank you to the wonderful team at Cherry Blossom Pre-School 🫶🏽

07/09/2026

After nearly 40 years in the business my mom, THE H’yvonne Kerr 👑 closed her nursery doors for the last time and has FINALLY retired.

This likkle girl from Portland , Jamaica has served her time.

She won’t mind me telling you that she is seventy-two years old and she is ECSTATIC that she can finally do other things.

To say that I am proud is an understatement and acknowledging her in this space is essential because without her there would be no Black Nursery Manager Training & Consultancy.

She gave me the blueprint and the permission to be this version of myself in these Early Years streets and she wants me to share some of those things with you 👩🏾‍🏫

05/09/2026

Yesterday it was a day in London, in the borough of Greenwich to start a series of sessions with the Early Years and Primary team at Alexander McLeod Primary School.

They are already an outstanding provision with a racially and culturally diverse cohort of pupils and an SLT who are committed to anti-racist practice as a core element of their schools ethos.

This first session was about how identity informs our practice and each session will build on the foundations set from the last to really consolidate the learning for team.

I absolutely loved the learning environment and the engagement of the teachers present in the session INCLUDING the Headteacher which was a delight 🙌🏾

Next stop Cheltenham 🚗😎🥳

03/09/2026

I’ve been thinking about Ms Rachel ❤️

02/09/2026

Yesterday my work started back with the first of three sessions that I’ll be delivering at Madeley Nursery School in Telford (I love a local gig!)

Their Head reached out to me earlier this year having seen me deliver at a conference a year or so before. He’d remembered my impact, got in touch and booked me to lead some sessions (I love it when work leads to more work 😎)

What I particularly enjoyed was being able to discuss where anti-racist practice sat alongside the Reggio Emilia principles that the nursery follows. Of course, the anti-facist underpinnings of Malaguzzi’s approach are integral to how we think about anti-racist practice and leaning into this whilst also acknowledging the tensions was a huge part of the learning.

The team were wonderful and absolutely ready to engage head on but more importantly without hesitation about how they can push their practice forward and strengthen it further.

It really was a great first day back which didn’t leave wellbeing out of the equation and off the back of a summer marred with racism from the British media and the subsequent awful tragedy with regards to the life of Professor Arday I was really warmed by beautiful messages from some of my friends in this work yesterday as I opened my phone 🫶🏽🥹

This solidarity in the work of anti-racism should never be underestimated.

On a similar wellbeing note one of the other perks of working relatively close to home is having the time to include a lovely little coffee date with a good friend on my way back to do the nursery pick up at Cake & Culture | Bakery & Coffee in Birmingham would HIGHLY recommend 😋

27/07/2026

I needed to expand my thoughts about a child’s right to play here after my reactionary response to share a video of a Black child being detained by the police on my stories. If you’ve seen the video circulating you’ll know what I’m talking
about but it’s not necessary for us to watch it to get the arguments I’ve raised here. They still stand.

There is also a wider point that I wanted to highlight here about the reactionary urge that myself and others felt to share this video with the aim of “educating” without consideration for the further harm this causes Black children and how Kasey Robinson BA (Hons) MSc | Inclusion Consultant (see last slide) calls us out RIGHTLY to STOP and interrogate how this is anti-Blackness in action.

This is to say that WE (particularly Black and global majority educators in this space) must continue to practice what we preach whilst fully embracing the call that rightly comes from our peers in this work which reminds us to be accountable.

No point me chatting about impact over intention whilst not considering this in practice.

Big up Kasey every time ❤️

27/06/2026

Best Start in Life Conference today.

🤩 Thank you Southend-on-Sea City Council Ms Taylor-Brown and REACHout Early Years Stronger Practice Hub East of England for having me 🙌🏾

and to everyone who chose my workshop and stayed for my closing keynote ✨

24/06/2026

When I did the event in Bristol a few weeks ago and Shaddai suggested we do a write up of it to really capture our reflections and the event itself I thought “what a brilliant idea”💡

It wasn’t until I read back what I had said that I realised how much it was an ode to my mom.

She is OFFICIALLY retiring from the nursery business this year.

She’s owned four nurseries in Birmingham.

She’s 72.

She came here from Portland, Jamaica at 14.

She’s been in business for nearly 40 years.

She’s been challenging the system all of that time and has done so relentlessly.

She taught me well 👑

I’ve linked the full write up expertly done by THE Dr Shaddai Tembo, in the resources link in my bio ❤️

18/06/2026

Sometimes share the highs of this work 🌤️

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