Curiosity, Courage and Care: Embedding Anti-Racist and Culturally Responsive Practice in Residential Childcare

A 3-part training programme for staff and leaders working in children’s homes and residential settings, designed to strengthen confidence, cultural responsiveness, reflective capacity, and anti-racist practice in everyday care environments. The programme responds to current concerns around racism, anti-Blackness, far-right and anti-immigrant sentiments, identity-based harm, disproportionality, microaggressions, safeguarding, and the emotional wellbeing of Black and racially minoritised children in care. It draws explicitly on the work of Prospera Tedam including the MANDELA Model, 4D2P Framework, and intentional supervision approaches.

This 2 day program of learning positions anti-racist practice not as an optional “add-on” but as central to ethical, relational and trauma-informed residential care. It encourages staff to move from awareness to intentional action through curiosity, courage, care and accountability, ensuring that Black and racially minoritised children experience residential settings as places where they are genuinely seen, heard, protected and valued.