Nursery World - A Unique Child: Well-being

A research project looking at well-being in the early years has
underlined some important factors to consider for this vital area of
childcare.

When colleagues from the Early Childhood Forum at the National Children's Bureau (NCB) and Early Childhood Studies at London Metropolitan University (LMU) got together in 2009 to discuss our ideas about well-being, the phrase was being used a lot.

It was central to Every Child Matters (DfE)1 and the focus of research by Unicef (2007)2 - so was also common in discussions in the early childhood field.

However, it seems that in the context of the current economic environment, looking after the well-being of all our youngest citizens is seen as a luxury the UK is no longer willing to afford. But in Exploring Well-being in the Early Years, I suggest that perhaps it is in such difficult times that we need to be even more focused on the well-being of children, the well-being of parents and the well-being of practitioners, too.

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