Issue 4 of Insight magazine now available for non-members

As part of our commitment to supporting professionals and practitioners across the children’s sector, we regularly open access to previous editions of our member magazine, Insight – and, today, non-members can now read the digital edition of Issue 4.

Originally published in April 2023, the fourth edition of Insight is filled with articles, profiles, interviews and features, and boasts an extended Changemakers section which includes an interview between our children and young people’s advisory group, Changing our World, and former Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland, Bruce Adamson.

What's more, in the magazine's lead four-page interview, Dr Khadija Mohammed, Associate Dean for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at the University of the West of Scotland, talks about the importance of embedding a meaningful understanding of racism across the school curriculum and beyond.

The Scottish Government website states that its Anti-Racism in Education Programme was established in response to the significant amount of correspondence received by the Deputy First Minister as part of the Black Lives Matter movement in the spring of 2020, and to one of the recommendations of the COVID-19 Ethnicity Expert Group.

A stakeholder group was set up during the pandemic, and in October 2022, a formalised board was established, chaired by Dr Mohammed. For Dr Mohammed, like many anti-racist educators and activists, this work was not new, nor was it a passing moment.

In 2013, she co-founded the Scottish Association of Minority Ethnic Educators to provide a strong voice for social and professional communities and to engage in critical dialogue. In her role at the University of the West of Scotland, she has been steadily working to ensure that the next generation of teachers and early years practitioners are supported to become anti-racist educators.

And now, she is determined to ensure the momentum is sustained so that the national focus on anti-racism can spark a transformation which enables children and young people across Scotland to have an education that represents the diverse past and present of our world, and challenges all of us to create a more socially just future.

To read the full interview with Dr Mohammed, click the link below, where you'll also find:

• A discussion about levelling the playing field in the performing arts with theatre-maker Rachel-Jane Morrison
• Amy Woodhouse on the complicated legacy of Nicola Sturgeon and her record on improving the lives of children and families
• Dr Alison Scott exploring approaches to supporting mothers whose children have been removed into care
• And Raza Sadiq's comment piece on the Illegal Migration Bill which he describes as an assault on human rights.

Insight Issue 4 is now available, click here to read

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