Chapter: The early years
Specialised parent–infant relationship teams: laying the foundations for our future
Sally Hogg, Senior Policy Fellow at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge and former Deputy CEO of the Parent–Infant Foundation
My career trajectory changed at the age of 17 when I did work experience with a GP caring for a disadvantaged community. Until then I had wanted to be a doctor; afterwards I wanted to help address the intergenerational social and economic issues that I …
Read the essayThe power of play: every child should have access to sensory food education
Mark Cuddigan, CEO of Ella’s Kitchen
Fruit and vegetables are at the heart of healthy relationships with food. Diets rich in them are linked to a lower risk of heart disease, stroke and some types of cancer.[i] Yet currently only 18 per cent of children aged 5 to 15 eat the recommended fi …
Read the essayLearning about relationships: the missing third pillar of early years education
Leslee Udwin, Film producer and director
We live in a world lurching from one crisis to the next. We are drowning in an onslaught of relentless images of inhumanity and fabricated facts. Many seem to have lost hope and seem to live in a fog of despair that it is too late and too bleak for thi …
Read the essayLearning to love: practical attachment-based classes
Duncan Fraser, Therapeutic coach and founder of Useful & Kind Unlimited and the Mindful Leadership Foundation
Love. That’s it. Love. Unconditional love. Tough love. Selfless love. Attached love. Not hippy love. Not sex. But the searing power to make the world better through love of self, others and the world.[i] Do we learn to love, or is it inbuilt? How do we …
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