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Equality & Diversity
Promoting a positive identity, potential and valuing diversity
through individualised care
Fostering Innovations is committed to provide inclusive and equal services to a diverse range of children and young people, and to promote equality and diversity as part of our recruitment and employment practices.
- Equality and Diversity for Children and Young People
- Inclusion for Children and Young People
- Equality in Employment
1 – Equality and Diversity for Children and Young People
- We encourage children to develop respect for themselves and for others.
- We deliver services that recognise and build on the strengths of children and young people from all cultures, religions, gender, age, sexual orientation, ability and backgrounds; in ways that meet their needs and help them to achieve their full potential.
- Every effort is made to ensure that services are welcoming to all children and young people and others significant in their care and wellbeing. Resources used to develop work with children and young people are chosen for their suitability and anti-oppressive nature.
- Children are offered opportunities to try out new experiences, which are not restricted by traditional gender options.
- Staff and foster carers are expected to challenge attitudes, behaviour and language that are non-inclusive and discriminatory, in a positive way.
- Managers are expected to monitor the range of children and young people placed in terms of ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation and disability. This is to ensure the service provision is reaching all and not creating barriers to certain groups.
2 – Inclusion for Children and Young People
- All children are given the opportunity to be cared for and educated in order to develop their full potential.
- Children are encouraged and supported to understand their rights and be well-informed about ways of challenging discrimination.
- Managers and foster carers are expected to identify local community resources that contribute to meeting the needs of individual children and young people these are highlighted and promoted and where they do not meet required needs alternatives are sought and suitably identified regardless of geographical location, for example hairdressers who specialise in braiding or cutting African Caribbean hair.
- Children are cared for by foster carers who have been suitably trained in all aspects of equality and diversity including legislation and their responsibilities.
- Assessments of the child/young person’s specific needs are carried out with an aim to support and develop their full potential.
- Foster carers are expected to examine ways in which diversity can be valued and activities adapted to meet the Individual child’s needs including food preparation and menu choices.
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