Speaking on the impact of Covid-19 on children’s development during his keynote speech, Dr Julian Grenier, head teacher at Sheringham Nursery School and Children’s Centre in Newham, and lead on the Revised Development Matters guidance, said that, ‘We’re seeing that a lot of children have been quite inactive during the previous lockdown period, and they are struggling in a way that we haven’t seen before with some of the equipment and some of the activities we plan. We’re having to give those children extra support and extra help.
‘And I think that health has been neglected far too much and too long in the early years.’
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