Intervention: Leading roles

Early years professionals need to know how and when to intervene in children's activities, says Anne O'Connor The Curriculum guidance for the Foundation Stage requires practitioners to use 'appropriate intervention' (page 11) to engage children in the learning process. But what is 'appropriate intervention', and are we striking the right balance when working with children in our settings? When intervention does take place it usually does so with the best of intentions: we want to keep children safe, to educate them, to treat...