The importance of listening to children has been steadily gaining recognition since Alison Clark and Peter Moss published Listening to Young Children: the Mosaic Approach in 2001. This emphasised the importance of finding methods with the starting point of children as experts in their own lives.
The EYFS now supports this fully with practitioners required to be skilled in listening to children as part of everyday practice and observation and assessment.
On 5 November the National Children's Bureau is presenting a conference, 'Early years - are we listening?', addressing these wider issues. The day will explore the ways in which children's rights, specifically the right to be listened to, can be kept central to all decisions that affect them, and ask whether more legislation is needed. Training consultant Judy Miller will offer support on embedding listening into practice and there will be presentations from early years teachers and children's centre heads. (Visit www.ycvn.eventbrite.com).
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