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Learning and development – Building back

The legacy of Covid-19 will be with us for some time. What does the evidence say are the biggest pandemic challenges, and what solutions are there? By Julian Grenier
The SHREC approach involves a new way of looking at the adult's role in communication.
The SHREC approach involves a new way of looking at the adult's role in communication.

It has been a tumultuous few years for everyone working in the early years, with the multiple challenges of Covid-19, lockdowns, and their impact on our children and our staff teams.

As the director of East London Research School, and the head teacher of a maintained nursery school, I spend a lot of my time considering the best available evidence, and how we should act on it. But, when we consider the unprecedented challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, it is difficult to find robust evidence.

Face-to-face research was impossible, and many settings had to drop out of research because of high levels of staff sickness.

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