Nursery World - Essay winner focuses on relationships

Jools Page from Kent has won this year's Nursery World student essay competition, which took the theme 'Caring for birth to threes'. Jools is currently studying for a PhD at the University of Sheffield, researching 'key person' relationships and the triangular relationship between the carer, the child and the child's parents. She said she chose to focus her research on the birth to three age group because she feels this group is often overlooked.

Jools is currently studying for a PhD at the University of Sheffield, researching 'key person' relationships and the triangular relationship between the carer, the child and the child's parents. She said she chose to focus her research on the birth to three age group because she feels this group is often overlooked.

'I believe there is a lot more work to be done for the under-threes, and there are many practitioners who endorse my views and are thirsty for recognition,' she said.

The second prize of 500 went to Ruth Roberton, who is studying for a BA/BSc in Early Childhood Studies and Psychology at Canterbury Christ Church University College in Kent.

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