Nursery World - Diversify for best practice, advises early years centre

Diversity in children's services should be the norm and not the exception, according to a leading early excellence centre. Good practice at the Sheffield Children's Centre in Yorkshire is highlighted in the second edition of Children in Europe, a bi-annual international publication published in Britain by Children in Scotland (News, 13 September 2001). The magazine's current theme is 'celebrating diversity'. It offers examples of innovative approaches to diversity in Belgium, France, Italy, Netherlands, Germany and England.

Good practice at the Sheffield Children's Centre in Yorkshire is highlighted in the second edition of Children in Europe, a bi-annual international publication published in Britain by Children in Scotland (News, 13 September 2001). The magazine's current theme is 'celebrating diversity'. It offers examples of innovative approaches to diversity in Belgium, France, Italy, Netherlands, Germany and England.

The magazine's editor, Peter Moss, who is professor of early childhood education at the University of London's Institute of Education, said, 'The challenge is to learn how to work with diversity as a great potential to be realised not as a problem to be solved. Children in Europe shows examples of services in many countries rising to this challenge.'

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