Support systems

Working with children under the age of three can be a demanding job. Helen Moylett outlines ways to ensure much-needed support mechanisms are firmly in place Writing in Nursery World about working with children under three, Peter Elfer ends with an appeal: 'We now need to turn our attention at a national level to the demands on and the needs of childcarers working with babies and toddlers. The intense emotional demands of their work remains one of the most neglected areas in early years practice.' ('Close encounters', 30 January 2003.) Julia Manning-Morton takes up this need for practitioner support in...