At a time when children and families are high on the political agenda, we sometimes forget that it was not always so. But if there is one person who laid the foundations for the current focus on prevention and early intervention, and on the importance of the first five years of life and the role of parents, it is Mia Kellmer Pringle, founder and first director of the National Children's Bureau.
Mia was born in 1921 and grew up in Vienna, fleeing from Nazi occupation with her mother as a young woman of 18. They arrived in England with little more than the clothes they were wearing. In the following years, Mia showed the determination, ability and sheer hard work that were to characterise her for the rest of her life.
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