1st Edition

Helping Every Child to Thrive in the Early Years How to Overcome the Effect of Disadvantage

By Maureen Hunt Copyright 2022
102 Pages 3 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

102 Pages 3 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

102 Pages 3 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

Helping Every Child to Thrive in the Early Years shows how a personalised and relationship-based approach to education and care can help overcome the ‘disadvantage gap’ in the early years. It examines the challenges that children from disadvantaged backgrounds face and looks at what settings and practitioners can do to enable every child to succeed. Drawing on the latest research and using... Read more
1. What is disadvantage?, 2. The Culture of Early Years, 3. Inclusion, 4. Vision and Values, 5. Parent partnerships, 6. Children with Additional Needs, 7. Ready to Read, 8. Transitions, 9. Conclusions

Biography

Maureen Hunt taught for 22 years in Nursery and Infant Schools across Southampton. She went on to work for Action for Children (now NCH) and then as a Regional Lead for Cornwall LA Children’s Services. In 2013 Maureen was appointed as Head of Early Years at Achievement for All and developed an award-winning national programme to support Early Years settings to improve outcomes for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children.

Maureen is currently working as an Independent Education Consultant specialising in Early Years and Primary Education.