Last updated: April 2026

Review date: April 2027

Introduction

We have the duty to create and implement strategies in nursery to prevent and address racism. Such strategies include:

• That the nursery records all racist incidents
• That all recorded incidents are reported to the children’s parents/guardians, and when appropriate to the registering

Parents have a right to know when racism occurs and what actions the nursery will take to tackle it.

In the Race Relations Act 1976 Section 71 there is a statement of the duty to ‘promote harmony and good relations’ between different groups in society. We have a statutory responsibility to monitor, review and eliminate racial discrimination.

Racial harassment

• Race is one of 9 'protected characteristics' covered by discrimination law (Equality Act 2010).
• Race discrimination includes direct and indirect discrimination, harassment and victimisation.
• Race discrimination can happen in any aspect of work. It can result from decisions made at work or from how people behave towards each other.
• It could be a regular pattern of racist behaviour or a one-off incident. It can happen in the workplace, at work social events or when people are working remotely.

Incidents may involve a small or large number or persons, they may vary in their degree of offence and may not even recognise the incident has racial implications; or at the other extreme their behaviour may be quite deliberate and blatant.

Examples of racial harassment

• Physical assault against a person or group of
• Derogatory name calling, insults and racial
• Racist graffiti and other written
• Provocative behaviour such as wearing racist badges and insignia and the distribution of racist literature.
• Threats against a person or group of people because of their colour or