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A small baby's hand being held by an adult hand.
22/10/2024

Attachment and social and emotional development

Author: Emily Samuel

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Attachment and social and emotional development
A small baby's hand being held by an adult hand.
22/10/2024

Attachment and social and emotional development

Author: Emily Samuel
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The impact of poverty on early childhood
a sad child
23/11/2023

The impact of poverty on early childhood

Author: Carey Oppenheim, Project Lead – Nuffield Foundation
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Embracing divergent pathways of development
Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales at a play session for families and children with special educational needs.
29/09/2023

Embracing divergent pathways of development

Author: Kerry Murphy – Lecturer in Early Years & SEND at Goldsmiths, University of London
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Kinship care and the unseen children’s champions
Her Royal Highness with kinship carers
25/05/2023

Kinship care and the unseen children’s champions

Author: Dr Lucy Peake, CEO of Kinship
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Early Childhood – Understanding the journey
09/02/2023

Early Childhood – Understanding the journey

Author: Sally Hogg, Dr Christine O’Farrelly, Dr Beth Barker and Professor Paul Ramchandani, Centre for Research on Play in Education, Development & Learning (PEDAL), University of Cambridge.
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How you become you: The story and science of early childhood
01/02/2023

How you become you: The story and science of early childhood

Author: Prof. Eamon McCrory, University College London, Anna Freud Centre
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Supporting Child Refugees and Asylum Seekers Through Trauma
07/11/2022

Supporting Child Refugees and Asylum Seekers Through Trauma

Author: Dr Sarah Davidson MBE, Head of Psychosocial & Mental Health at British Red Cross
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We need to tell a new story about early childhood
31/10/2022

We need to tell a new story about early childhood

Author: Kate Stanley, Executive Director of @FrameWorksUK and previously a Board Director at NSPCC, Deputy Director at IPPR, and an adviser on the Early Years Steering Group convened by the then Duchess of Cambridge
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The urgent need to support and invest in the mental wellbeing of parents
30/08/2022

The urgent need to support and invest in the mental wellbeing of parents

Author: Dr Alain Gregoire, Perinatal Psychiatrist, Hon President of the Maternal Mental Health Alliance UK and Chair of the Global Alliance for Maternal Mental Health
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