Nursery World - Letters: Poverty experience

I couldn't agree more with Christopher Price (Letters, 6 January) - there certainly are many definitions of poverty.

Probably as many as there are people who think about the concept.

In a sense, though, it doesn't matter. What is important and where thebig challenge is, is to try to identify and address how childrenexperience it. Big issues (like poverty, equality and so on) come out insmall ways, day to day, child by child, in the early years setting.

Practitioners are sandwiched at a junction maybe where their own biggerunderstandings meet with children's individual experiences at a specifictime and place. The expectation seems to be that this meeting place willalways be managed with professionalism and sensitivity. This is a bigresponsibility.

Andrew Sanders, early years lecturer.

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