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Enabling Environments: All about ... A good childhood

The conclusions of the Good Childhood Inquiry's final report are not borne out in early years settings' practice, argues Pat Gordon-Smith.

On the morning of 2 February, the Children's Society launched its 'landmark' report of the Good Childhood Inquiry to the media. Entitled A Good Childhood, it had been eagerly awaited by many who hoped for an antidote to the gloom over children's experiences in our whizzy, technological, fractured society.

Its rigorous survey of research and consultation with 35,000 children, adults and professionals would surely give cause to celebrate children and families, while identifying the many difficulties they face. In so doing, it would inspire children, families, communities and Government to set the experience of British childhood on a new and exciting path.

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