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Princess of Wales launches new framework to boost social and emotional skills from early childhood onwards

The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood has published a new framework aimed at improving awareness and knowledge of social and emotional skills, with the aim of creating a ‘happier, healthier society’.
PHOTO: The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood

The Shaping Us Framework, which draws on the expertise of academics, clinicians and practitioners in human development, is designed to provide a universal and flexible way to talk about social and emotional skills from early childhood through to adulthood, recognising that social and emotional skills underpin all areas of development.

It forms part of The Princess of Wales’ mission to create a ‘happier, healthier society’, and comes after findings from the Centre’s latest annual public perceptions survey found 42 per cent of respondents have little or no understanding of how social and emotional skills develop during early childhood.

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