Launched by The Association for Infant Mental Health (UK), a new framework is being piloted to give practitioners ‘a mechanism by which they can rate their infant mental health (IMH) practice’ and address any gaps in training.
The Infant Mental Health Competencies Framework was launched in Parliament in May.
Dawn Cannon, Director of Training and Education at the UK arm of Association for Infant Mental Health told Nursery World, ‘One of the drivers for this was early years practitioners. They do a fantastic job and yet are poorly paid and not recognised for the work they do.’
She said it was a way of codifying and recognising the knowledge that many experienced early years practitioners will already have.
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