The Anna Freud Centre, a national charity dedicated to providing training and support for child mental health services, believes that nursery workers are a key source of information, and that their insights may have remained untapped for too long.
Dr Camilla Rosan, head of the Early Years Programme said, ‘Every day nursery workers look after and support children with an extraordinary wide range of backgrounds, life experiences and mental health needs. But up until now there hasn’t actually been that much research which explores their views of the world.
‘We’d really like to know what their frontline experiences are, and about the kinds of needs the young children in their care experience most day to day. There is also little information about the challenges they face when trying to manage these needs, so we’ll be asking about these.’
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