In high-quality early years settings across the country, practitioners know that children are the experts when it comes to their learning. This is reflected in the four guiding principles of the Early Years Foundation Stage, which recognise every child as unique, with an individual path to learning and a need for close relationships and enabling environments in order to succeed.
These ideas are remarkably close to the leading principles in children's rights, making the early years especially fertile ground for upholding those rights. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (which the UK has agreed to honour) says that:
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