Nursery World - Social network for baby room staff expands

Baby room practitioners are being invited to join a social networking site (NING) where they can discuss professional issues and access information relevant to their work with babies.

The Baby Room NING was set up in September 2009, but has so far been exclusively for participants in the Baby Room Project - a year-long project run by Dr Kathy Goouch and Dr Sacha Powell of Canterbury Christ Church University, funded by Esme Fairbairn.

The project involved working with a small group of baby room practitioners in Kent to look at their practice, run development sessions and affirm the worth of their work, as this part of the early years workforce is often overlooked in relation to support and professional development.

The NING proved a successful method of enabling practitioners to provide mutual support and find useful information. The research team has decided to open membership to other baby room staff from September, as part of plans to widen the project's scope.

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