An early years trainer has said she received a torrent of racist emails after a Conservative politician described her work as “brainless nonsense” and called for her to be “defunded”.
Liz Pemberton, who runs an anti-racist training and consultancy company called the Black Nursery Manager, said her inbox had been flooded with abuse since the comments, by the former education minister Sir John Hayes, were reported this month.
Her sessions include teaching staff how to handle questions on race from young children, and how “to confidently satisfy the natural curiosity that all children have pertaining to skin colours, hair textures, and religious and/or cultural practices”.
