1st Edition
Working with Children Aged 0-3 and Their Families The Pen Green Approach
About the Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Principles for working with children under three and their families
2. Setting up the baby and toddler provision at Pen Green
3. Establishing the birth-to-three team and building their capacity to work with young children in an education and care provision
4. The role of the Family Worker
5. Supporting families in challenging circumstances: extending the 'Key Person' role
6. Celebrating the voice of the child
7. 'Pedagogic Strategies': a conceptual framework for effective parent and practitioner strategies when working with children under five
8. Consultancy observation: a methodology to promote group reflective capacity
9. Universal and specialised groups for children under three and their families
10. Growing Together: a group for parents and carers with infants and toddlers
11. The ‘Being Two’ project: disseminating good practice locally and nationally
Index
Biography
Tracy Gallagher is one of the Joint Heads of the Pen Green Centre, Corby, Northamptonshire, UK.
Cath Arnold is an Early Years Consultant.
