Nursery World - Into practice (1)

Implement the Birth to Three Matters framework at your setting with guidance from the specially-devised series,Little Baby Books. Sally Featherstone gets you started Birth to Three Matters - a framework to support children in their earliest years - is a resource for practitioners working with children in all types of early years settings, family centres and Sure Start projects. It has been warmly welcomed by all who have read it. However, some practitioners are concerned about its implementation. What does it look like in practice?

Birth to Three Matters - a framework to support children in their earliest years - is a resource for practitioners working with children in all types of early years settings, family centres and Sure Start projects. It has been warmly welcomed by all who have read it. However, some practitioners are concerned about its implementation. What does it look like in practice?

Little Baby Books have been written in response to such concerns (see box). Each book offers fun activities for one of the four aspects identified in Birth to Three Matters, and across the four broad stages of development described in the document.

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