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Understand stages and sequences of development from birth to seven years

Watch ‘What influences Early Childhood Development’ produced by Human Early Learning Partnership. In the video Dr. Clyde Hertzman, Director of the Human Early Learning Partnership describes environments that matter for early child development and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

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Reading Materials

'Child development: Milestones and parenting tips’ on the Very Well Family website
'Development Matters' from the Department for Education
'Brain development in children’ by the Australian Early Development Census
'Growth and development’ from NHS Scotland Healthier Scotland website
'Ages and stages’ webpage on the Talking Point website

Presentation

This presentation, called 'Normal development', looks at what is meant by the standard stages and sequences of development. Click on the icon to read this resource.
This presentation is called 'Influences on developent.

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Evidence Opportunities
Extended Learning

This article from the Otherwise website is an outlines of the concept of holistic development.
This report ‘Child health and wellbeing: The early years’ from the Design Council provides a summary of desk research to examine key themes and issues for parents and children in the early years from pregnancy to five years. Read the ‘Introduction’, ‘The parent-child relationship’ and ‘Social and emotional development’.
Click to read ‘How culture influences children’s development’ from Bournemouth University.
This article from Best Start looks at ‘Factors Affecting Child Development’.

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