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Learning and Development: Babies - With warmth
Nursery World,
27 November 2007
To an infant, moving into group care from the familiar relationships of home can be like arriving in a foreign country.
But a practitioner's thoughtful, personal interactions can bridge the gap, says Rod Parker-Rees The scale of the challenge faced by settings offering 'out of family' care for children aged under two years has been widely acknowledged (Goldschmied and Jackson 2004; Biddulph 2005; Barnes et al. 2006; Gerhardt 2004). However dedicated practitioners are, and even when infants have regular contact with the same key worker, there will always be a 'familiarity gap' in their relationship, making primary communication more of...
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