By Julia Manning-Morton, an independent consultant, trainer and author (www.key-times.co.uk/profiles/). She specialises in practice and provision that meets the needs of children under three and is an expert on the personal, social and emotional well-being of children and practitioners.
Her publications include Two-Year-Olds In Early Years Settings: Journeys Of Discovery (2015) and Exploring Well-being in the Early Years (2014)
In the last child study of this series, we meet five-year-old Talia, who attends the reception class of her local primary school in Newcastle. Talia lives in a small flat on the fifth floor of an apartment block with her mother, Nadia, father, Kamal, and younger brother Kariem.
Talia and her family are of Sudanese origin. Her mother came to the UK as an unaccompanied teenage refugee. She now works part time for a charity that supports child refugees, and it was here that she met Kamal. The family are Muslim and attend the local mosque.
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