Enabling Environments: Continuous Provision Part 1 - Don't stop me now!

Nursery World, 17 September 2008

What is meant by continuous provision, and what does it require of early years practitioners? Anne O'Connor explains the key elements.

Continuous provision' is a term introduced only relatively recently, to describe the core of everyday resources that should always be available to children in early years settings. As an approach it is hardly new - in the past, we have used a variety of terms, such as 'resource-based play environment' and 'workshop approach', to describe the good practice of having a constant, ready supply of essential equipment and materials on offer from which children can make choices and direct...

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