This book presents original ethnographic research into the connections between childcare, family lives and social policy in Wales.

This book draws on original research to consider the connections between childcare, family lives and social policy. The research, located in Wales in the period

Children are already learning at birth, and they develop and learn at a rapid pace in their early years. This provides a critical foundation for lifelong progre

This is a comprehensive resource that supports practitioners' and parents' understanding of what it means to include the voices of young children and to respond

Decades of research have demonstrated that the parent-child dyad and the environment of the familyâ€"which includes all primary caregiversâ€"are at the fo