The start of a new year provides an appropriate opportunity to focus on the position of young children in early years provision. While there is much talk of the importance of quality among a range of 'stakeholders', their own voice in this debate is barely heard. Or are they perhaps making their feelings known in other ways?
There is growing evidence that young children are suffering from increasing and serious stress. For some, it may be brought on by the demands placed on their parents, who are combining parenting and full-time employment, while for others the reverse applies as stress results from the strains within workless families, or families coping with a variety of complex problems, of which unemployment is only one.
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