Developing Attachment in Early Years Settings: Nurturing Secure Relationships from Birth to Five Years

This is a guide to preparing for the care of individual babies and children in settings. The book examines the importance of nurturing individual relationships within group childcare and helps practitioners to understand more about facilitating secure attachments from the beginnings of an adult-child relationship, and observation.

It draws on the practice guidance of the Early Years Foundation Stage and national guidance on social and emotional development. A second edition to the book, which came our in 2009, features significant additonal material relation to brain development.