Understanding emotional wellbeing in early years settings
Find and read what the early years regulatory framework governing your setting says about emotional wellbeing.
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- ‘About wellbeing’ from the What Works Wellbeing website
- Find and read your setting’s policies and procedures on the wellbeing of children, staff and parents/carers.
- ‘Well-being for children in the EYFS’ by Stephanie Moriarty on the CACHE website
- ‘5 ways to mental wellbeing’ on the NHS website
- Find and read what the early years regulatory framework governing your setting says about emotional wellbeing.
- ‘Wellbeing and early years children: Transitioning back after lockdown’ from Lancashire County Council.
- ‘The role of childcare professionals in supporting mental health and wellbeing in young people: a literature review’ by Ione Inness for PACEY
- ‘Social and emotional wellbeing: early years’ webpage on the website
- ‘Designated mental health and wellbeing lead: guidance and resources’ from Optimus Education.
- Presentation
- Click to launch this lesson’s first presentation ‘What is wellbeing?’
- Click to launch this presentation that looks at the ‘Wellbeing’ of practitioners.
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Learn more about emotions as part of the early years foundation stage (EYFS), including advice from experts and suggested activities
- This section of the Anna Freud Centre website provides easy to read and easy to use guidance on supporting the mental health of babies, young children and their families.
- The Anna Freud Centre’s website also contains a section on ‘Early years staff wellbeing: a resource for managers and teams’.
- The Early Years Alliance has this article called ‘Happy children — taking care of young people's wellbeing’.
- Click to read ‘Mental health and emotional wellbeing’ form Barnardo’s.
- Use this link to read ‘Wellbeing in the early years’ by Julia Manning-Morton, published on the Teach Early Years website.
- Read about ‘The cycle of wellbeing’ from Education Scotland which draws together a wide range of national guidance and resources published to support the wellbeing of staff and children and young people.
- Click on the link to read this infographic on the ‘Resilience Framework from Blackpool Council in association with Boing Boing, an organisation that aims to model and promote resilience research and practice that challenges social inequalities, in pursuit of a loving, fun and fair world where individuals from all walks of life are valued and respected
- This Laser Learning reading text looks at ‘Risk and protective factors for childhood experiences’. What warning signs do you think you might see in children in the early years?
- Think And Challenge
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