Many young children are spending their days being shuttled from one form of care and education to another. Anne Wiltsher looks at moves to smooth the joins
You need not have a Masters degree in psychology to know that too much change is bad for children - and the younger they are, the more they suffer from it.
But as Dr Margy Whalley, director of the Pen Green Centre of Excellence in Corby, Northamptonshire, and others have said (Nursery World, 16 and 30 September 1999), families on low incomes where both parents work are often forced to use several different forms of education and care, both formal and informal, each week, making it difficult for their young children to develop satisfying relationships with their carers.
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