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A Unique Child: Mixed race children - In the mix
Nursery World,
31 January 2008
With children of mixed parentage becoming a larger proportion of the UK population, early years practitioners must avoid making assumptions, says Annette Rawstrone.
With 50 per cent of the UK's 677,000 mixed race people under the age of 16, it may not be large, but is certainly a fast-growing sector of our population. With this in mind, it is going to become increasingly likely that practitioners experience caring for a mixed race child, and not just those who work in multicultural cities. Contrary to assumptions, there are also significant numbers of mixed families in more prosperous suburbs and small towns,...
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