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Major firms commit to action as taskforce report identifies £45.5billion opportunity for UK economy from investing in early childhood
The Royal Foundation Business Taskforce for Early Childhood has today, Tuesday 21 May 2024, published a report setting out the business case for prioritising early childhood and announced the first tranche of action to be taken as a result of its work.
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Putting the socioemotional development of the infant on the agenda in primary care – Implementation of the ADBB in Denmark
Every child deserves the best possible chance at building positive and healthy relationships, and the ADBB model is allowing health visitors to gain additional practical skills to help deliver this support.
Early Childhood – Understanding the journey
For many, many years, kinship care has been an ‘invisible force’ for good within the children’s social care system. Dr Lucy Peake, CEO of Kinship shares how kinship carers have gone about the complicated business of raising their grandchildren or niece or younger brother, whilst remaining unnamed, unrecognised, and undervalued.
First insights from 2023 Public Perception Survey released
The new data, which shows an increase in awareness of the importance of early childhood over the past year, also highlights the fact that men are still significantly less aware than women of the extraordinary impact of the first five years of a child’s life.
To help address this, The Princess of Wales took her Shaping Us campaign to Maidenhead Rugby Club today, where she met with local and national male players to discuss the issue.
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21/5/2024Major firms commit to action as taskforce report identifies £45.5billion opportunity for UK economy from investing in early childhood
The Royal Foundation Business Taskforce for Early Childhood has today, Tuesday 21 May 2024, published a report setting out the business case for prioritising early childhood and announced the first tranche of action to be taken as a result of its work.
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21/3/2024"Overwhelmingly positive” results for Royal Foundation-backed early years trial as report recommends expansion to more UK health visiting teams.
Health visitors involved in a trial, funded by The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood, testing the feasibility of new baby observation tool have reported an increase in their knowledge and skills in interpreting baby behaviour, and subsequently supporting parent-child interactions, as a result of training in a new observational tool.
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24/11/2023The Princess of Wales visits Sebby’s Corner to kickstart initiative to support families
The Princess of Wales visited Sebby’s Corner in Barnet on Friday 24th November to kickstart an initiative from The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood to provide support to families with young children in the run up to Christmas.
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24/11/2023Help for families with babies and young children this Christmas
This Christmas, December 2023, The Centre for Early Childhood is working to support baby banks to get essential goods and basic necessities to families in the run up to Christmas.
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18/11/2023Royal Christmas carol service at Westminster Abbey returns to ITV on Christmas Eve
The Princess of Wales will return to Westminster Abbey to host a special Christmas carol service on Friday 8th December.
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13/11/2023The Princess of Wales delivers keynote speech at Shaping Us National Symposium
On Wednesday 15th November, The Princess of Wales and The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood hosted The Shaping Us National Symposium at The Design Museum in London.
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