Seeking to deliver on its ambitions to become an anti-racist service, Sutton Council have pioneered a role for an Anti-Racist Practice Lead (APRL) within its children’s services department. The role was appointed in January 2021 to signify a strategic commitment to do more around tackling racism and the impact it has on local communities. The APPL is supervised by the Principal Social Worker and seeks to provide dedicated capacity to address the council’s key strategic priority around racial equality, driving the Council’s Anti-Racism Action Plan, which focuses on children’s social care and safeguarding. An Anti-Racism Working Group supports the delivery, with the team gathering supplementary input from other means like surveys, consultation and team meetings. The key ambitions of the Plan are to improve representation of global majority employees among senior leadership, create a work culture where staff feel they can be themselves, embed cultural competence, anti-racism and anti-discrimination in practice with children, as well as promoting engagement with the diverse community in Sutton.