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We all have a role to play in shaping the next generation
Family friends, aunts, uncles and grandparents, neighbours and teachers have all played an impactful role on shaping the lives of adults in the UK today, according to research published by the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood on 16 August 2023.
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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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27/9/2023The Princess of Wales joins play session for families and children with special education needs as part of ‘shaping us’ campaign on early childhood
Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales has today, Wednesday 27 September 2023, joined children with special educational needs and their families, at a play session in Sittingborne, Kent, to highlight the importance of support for neurodiversity in early childhood.
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16/8/2023We all have a role to play in shaping the next generation
Family friends, aunts, uncles and grandparents, neighbours and teachers have all played an impactful role on shaping the lives of adults in the UK today, according to research published by the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood today, 16 August 2023.
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16/6/2023The Princess of Wales spotlights vital role of health visitors
The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood has today, Friday 16 June 2023, published the second in a series of reports based on its annual Public Perceptions Survey, which looks at public understanding of the role of the early years sector in shaping our earliest years and, in particular, the role of health visitors.
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15/6/2023The Princess of Wales visits Nuneaton to meet health visitors taking part in study funded by The Centre for Early Childhood
The Princess of Wales met health visitors taking part in a new field study, funded by The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood, which aims to support the profession to promote infant wellbeing and social and emotional development.
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7/6/2023First insights from 2023 Public Perception Survey released
The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood has today, Wednesday 7 June 2023, published the first in a series of reports based on its annual Public Perceptions Survey.
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25/5/2023The Princess of Wales highlights the importance of relationships in early childhood
The Princess of Wales visited the Foundling Museum in London to meet young people with lived experience of the care system, as well as with foster carers and adoptive parents. She also met kinship carers at a support group session facilitated by national charity Kinship to hear about their experiences of caring for the child of a relative or friend and the vital role they play in raising the next generation.
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