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Chrissy Meleady Bio - CREC trainer
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Chrissy Meleady MBE:
Chrissy Meleady is the Chief Executive of Early Years Equality. Early Years
Equality is a UK and an internationally based organisation championing multi strand
equalities whilst placing a primacy upon matters of race and racial equality.
Chrissy’s previous roles have included being the Head of Centre, followed by a period
as the Chair of the Centre of the award winning and innovative Sheffield Children’s
Centre, (the first Children’s Centre in Europe and a trail blazer for many of the UK 's
current policies and practices around diversity, inclusion and anti-discriminatory
service development and delivery. This Centre was one of Britain’s Early Excellence
Centres).
She has also been the Chief Executive of Sheffield Racial Equality Council, the Chief
Executive of South Yorkshire Equalities and Ant-Discrimination Service, a Human
Rights Commissioner and author of several publications including:-
Racism and Enslavement - Learning from the past for a racist free and equal
present and future.
By Chrissy Meleady, Chief Executive EYE.
Early Years Single Equality Strategy (EYSES) – Essential Advice and
Guidance.
By Chrissy Meleady MBE, Chief Executive EYE.
ENCO Handbook – Equality Named Co-ordinator. (Inclusion Co-ordinator,
Equal Opportunities Co-ordinator, Equality Co-ordinator). -2011 Updated
By Chrissy Meleady MBE, Chief Executive Officer, Early Years Equality.
Children, Families and Community – Creating and Sustaining Integrated
Services.
By Pat Broadhead, Chrissy Meleady and Marco A. Delgado
Celebrating Our Families with Pride
By Chrissy Meleady
Intergenerational Delivery and Early Intervention in Early Years Provisions
By Chrissy Meleady
Cohesive Communities the role of Children’s Centres
By Chrissy Meleady
Anti –Discrimination, Equality and Inclusion-
Early Support Programme – DfE by Chrissy Meleady
Chrissy has worked in various European countries, as well as in Jordan, Ethiopia,
USA, Poland- Auschwitz Museum – Holocaust profiling work, other European
countries, Pakistan, Mexico and other Latin American Countries etc. and has been
proactive in anti-racism and other anti-discriminatory work on behalf of
Governments, Peace and Humanitarian agencies along with other NGOs.
Chrissy herself is from a minority ethnic community she has three children one of
whom is disabled.
She brings to the Early Years field a combined passion for the sector's issues as well
as a trenchant commitment to ensuring that the Early Years is strategically recognised
as an integral player in Britain’s civil renewal and that the inclusion and cohesion
agenda is one which fully recognises multiple identities whilst actively combating
multiple inequalities and discriminations.
Chrissy was awarded an MBE in the 2000 Honours List for her work with Children,
Families and Communities in the UK and Overseas.
She supported the British Government’s National Strategies in their formulation and
also the recent Review of the Early Years Foundation Stage and also their Guidance
to the Early Years sector on Black Children’s achievement and Gypsy, Roma and
Traveller Children’s achievement and the Primary Strategies Consultants Handbooks
for all Local Authorities. Her publication on developing a Single Equalities Scheme
(EYSES) in every Authority and the embedding of ENCO’s in all early years settings
is included in the National Primary Strategies Guidance documents detailed above as
part of this Guidance. She equality proofed the Early Support Programme for the
DCSF and assisted OFSTED with their review of their Early Years Inspection
processes and Training now in operation. She has been assisting in reviewing the
SENCO Handbooks for the UK with the National Strategies and is currently in
putting into the development of the new EYSF, Chrissy is also currently writing the
Equalities Guidance for Ofsted Inspectors in the UK that will link to the new
‘EEYSF’
Chrissy has also written the Equality and Diversity components for the NPQICL and a
range of Training and Further Education Qualifications for the UK and was party to
the formulation of UNICEF’s Rights Respecting Award for the Early Years which is
currently being piloted across the UK also.