Promoting Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in Home-Based Childcare

Unit 1 – Learning Outcome 4 – Understand How to Promote Equality, Diversity and
Inclusion
Plan 4- Welcome to your Home Based Childcare Award (HBCA)
As you are aware, working in the early years sector comes with a great responsibility and in return is
a rewarding role. Throughout the live webinars, alongside using your membership to access PACEY
resources, we will be supporting you to understand and provide evidence to meet the CACHE criteria
for you to achieve your Level 3 HBCA.
The live teaching session to support plan 4 can be accessed using the pink “files from course” square
on your portfolio home page. Here you can see a timetable of all the live Zoom sessions for the
month. In addition to this there is a recorded webinar on this subject. Please see below.
Live Zoom - Recorded webinar - Please see last page of this plan for further guidance to help
support you.
Unit 1- Learning outcome 4: Understand how to promote equality, diversity and inclusion.
We live in such a rich diverse society, in this learning outcome you will explore how to embed
equality, diversity and inclusion in your practice much of which is now governed by law (see unit 1
LO1)
C3AHBC1-4.1 Explain the roles and responsibilities of the home based childcarer in supporting
equality, diversity and inclusive practice.
C3AHBC1-4.2 Evaluate the impact of own attitudes, values and behaviour when supporting equality,
diversity and inclusive practice.
Verbs Explained -
Explain - Give clear detailed information giving reasons, and showing how or why.
Evaluate - Review evidence from different perspectives and come to a valid conclusion or reasoned
judgement

In this assignment you need to meet Assessment Criteria 4.1 & 4.2
Assessment Criteria: 4.1 - Explain the roles and responsibilities of the
home-based childcarer in supporting equality, diversity and
inclusive practice
Provide a detailed explanation of your roles and responsibilities to
include how you will do the following:
 Meeting legal requirements under the Equality Act 2010 and
the statutory framework (EYFS)
 Supporting British Values
 Being culturally aware
 Keeping up to date with legislation
 Reflecting diversity amongst your resources
 Avoiding stereotypical comments
 Challenging discrimination
There are several roles and responsibilities that need to be
performed by home-based childcare while promoting
equality, diversity, and inclusive practices so that child can
live better lifestyle. The childcare need to follow all legal laws,
values and ethics while performing several task and activities
so that end objectives can be achieved. Therefore, various
roles and responsibilities which needs to be played by
childcare is as follows:
 Meeting legal requirements under the Equality Act
2010 and the statutory framework (EYFS): There are
several laws and legislation that has been made by
government to regulate childcare so that all children are
given equal support and care for their better treatment.
Like early year foundation stage is responsible for
setting various standard related to development,

learning and care of children from birth to age group of
5 years old. So, childcare by following all principle and
commitment mentioned in the frameworks can
delivered best experienced to all children.
 Supporting British Values: Another role and
responsibilities which needs to be performed by
childcare is supporting British value and ethics while
completing its several activities and task. Such as ensure
justice and fairness towards all children so that they are
delivered qualitative services.
 Being culturally aware: Moreover, it can be stated that
childcare while delivering its services needs to have
cultural awareness. Cultural awareness will help in
better understanding of child problem or issue thus
providing it best services so that it can learn and
developed.
 Keeping up to date with legislation: Childcare
professionals need to keep itself updated with recent
legislation and laws so that it can abide to them while
delivering several services to all children.
 Reflecting diversity amongst your resources: There are
several resources which are being required by childcare
while promoting equality and diversity practices. So, it is
roles and responsibilities of childcare professionals to
arrange diverse range of resources so that child can
provide better support and care for its overall
development. For examples: food, hand soap and
healthy environment where it can grow and developed.
 Avoiding stereotypical comments: Childcare needs to
ensure that it does not make any type of stereotypical
comments while providing treatment to children. For
example: childcarer needs to have equality thinking
while treating several individuals.
 Challenging discrimination: It should also ensure that

equal treatment is provided to each child so there
should not be any type of discrimination