The Enhanced Leadership Series aims are to provide the CPEY cohort of leaders and practitioners with the opportunity to:

• Recognise the value and importance of anti-racist professional learning as a continuum across early years, childcare and playwork.
• Enable an appreciation of new ways of working for sustainable active critical change through anti-racist professional leadership.
• Share peer to peer experiences through dialogue for community of practice development.
• Enable leaders to develop/contribute to strategic plans aligned with Prof. Charlotte Williams’ Report Recommendations and Welsh Government Anti-Racist Wales Action Plan (ARWAP).
• Use and co-construct tools and resources to critically appraise and inform their own organisational culture.
• Explore and develop racial literacy.
• DARPL ELS Professional Learning Outcomes.

On successful completion of the DARPL Enhanced Leadership Series, the CPEY cohort will be equipped to:

• Recognise anti-racist leadership and professional practice.
• Raise awareness through extended authentic self-reflection including explorations of whiteness, power dynamics in leadership and professional practice.
• Define (within their own professional context) key practices of anti-racist leadership and race equity.
• Lead / engender safe and brave spaces within their organisations/professional practice through policy and practice reform.
• Create materials, policy, and resources to support anti-racist professional practice and wellbeing.
• Implement professional learning through in the context of their own work.
• Investigate the challenges / barriers that exist for leaders when shifting from generic inclusive practice to anti-racist whole organisational culture.
• Develop critical thinking on race equity in practice.

Dates and times of sessions

There are five sessions in this series (three in person and two on-line) from February – April 2025*. Participants need to commit to attending the whole series.

• February 6 – Face to Face session – Time TBC 9.00-3.30
• February 18 – Online (morning) 9.30-12.00
• March 6 – Face to Face session – Time TBC 9.00-3.30
• March 19 – Online (afternoon) – 12.00-14.30
• April 02 – Face to Face session – Time TBC

By registering on this course, you will be providing us with personal information in order for us to process your booking and arrange the course. >> DARPL Enhanced Leadership Series (ELS) for the Childcare, Play and the Early Years sector (Cwlwm) – Meithrin