There are too many myths that working with under-threes is easy. Only very skilled, responsive and knowledgeable practitioners can follow a child's lead and scaffold their development at the right pace. Some settings fill the 'baby rooms' with their youngest and least experienced staff. Scarily, some people still believe that all you need with young children is to be 'loving and patient'. What of the brain development research and the importance of helping young children make critical synaptic connections, especially those disadvantaged children who feature highly in the Government's agenda of social justice?
A coherent framework has to be created against the reality of a service where children as young as three months are in daycare for more than ten hours a day, 51 weeks of the year.
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