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The Gender Fri endly Nursery Our Journey So Far….

The Gender Fri endly Nursery Our Journey So Far…. Susie Heywood & Bar bara Adzajlic Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership. 31 May 2018. Why Gender Friendly Nurseries?. A bit about us. Barbara Adzailic Gender Based Violence Work Schools – Gold Stars/Crush

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The Gender Fri endly Nursery Our Journey So Far….

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  1. The Gender Friendly Nursery Our Journey So Far…. Susie Heywood & Barbara Adzajlic Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership 31 May 2018

  2. Why Gender Friendly Nurseries?

  3. A bit about us Barbara Adzailic Gender Based Violence Work Schools – Gold Stars/Crush Community – White Ribbon, GBV Guideline Youth Work Settings Mental Health in Schools Susie Heywood Perinatal Mental Health Suicide Prevention Men & Isolation

  4. Prevention / Early Intervention in: Relationships, Sexual Health & Parenting (RSHP) Gender Based Violence LGBT issues Men’s and boys’ mental health Education Employability Gender pay gap Body image Participation Parenting

  5. Dr. Nancy Lombard

  6. Gender Friendly Nurseries: How does it work?

  7. The programme Pilot phase (October 2016-March 2018): 1-day, full-staff training course (or 3 x twilights) Complete audit & action plan Return action plan and work on progress Achieve award Celebrate!

  8. The training What is gender? What are gender stereotypes and where do we find them? What’s the harm? What are we doing well? What else could we do? Tools

  9. Children’s TV

  10. The toy industry

  11. The Audit Does the nursery ENVIRONMENT relfect a gender balance? How gender neutral are our RESOURCES? Are our STAFF gender aware? Do we MANAGE/LEAD our nursery in a gender friendly way? PARENTS/CARERS and the wider community? CURRICULUM, LEARNING & TEACHING

  12. Our 10 Steps to becoming a Gender Friendly Nursery Name of Early Years Establishment:__________________________ Action plan

  13. AWARD & CELEBRATE

  14. Key Findings from Evaluation Affirms and enhances existing knowledge and practice, and challenges attitudes but always something to more to learn Audit a key step Importance of engaging with parents Impact of primary/secondary schooling Discussion a key part of the programme / passionate knowledgeable trainers Importance of remaining pragmatic/flexible Fit with wider agenda

  15. What have nurseries done? Added Gender Friendly Nurseries to their Improvement Plan Specific gender policy Further training / reflection Small changes Communicating with parents Language

  16. What’s next for the Gender Friendly Nursery?Glasgow Part of wider Healthy Relationships programme Early Protective Messages: Whole staff, inservice days Leaders of Early Learning & HI ↔ EY Management ↔ staff LGBT training GFN training

  17. Thank you and goodbye! Barbara.adzajlic@ggc.scot.nhs.ukSusie.heywood@ggc.scot.nhs.uk

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