Parents and other family members are mostly treated as second class citizens

My starting point for this Leaping Forward series of articles is my experience that parents and other family members are mostly treated as second class citizens. This impacts on their self-esteem and coping strategies and p

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Are we making progress or losing ground?

My dream is that early child and family support around the world will be effective in family terms, fully integrated between local agencies and available at the time of need to all families in the locality. What would you add to this?

With this aspiration in

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Supporting an early support workforce with training

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Coming 25 years into the century, this conference has the potential to be an

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Bringing people together into an ‘early child & family support workforce’

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We are slowly moving through an international evolu

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The TAC approach with its multi-agency keyworker is straightforward, easy to manage and effective in family terms

Editorial: TAC Bulletin readers might have seen my ‘wishes’ for content in the coming Portugal conference 2025. These started with:Early child and family support conference in Portugal (

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This is the fifth of my wishes for program content

Conference: ADVANCING COMPREHENSIVE EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERVENTION - what parents, professionals, science, and national systems can tell us

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While this important world conference/summit can learn from the (very slow) progress during t

Read more: Early child and family support conference in Portugal by ISEI and Eurlyaid. 5: Learning valuable lessons from the pandemic about working at a distance

Do you have an answer to this mystery?

Editorial comment: David Cameron is now UK Foreign secretary. He used to be prime minister (2010 – 2016) and perhaps has been brought back into office to prop up an ailing government.

A wonderful programme of early support for disabled babies and young children

Read more: Why did David Cameron allow UK’s Early Support to fade away?

Could this landmark conference discuss the shared training needs of early support professionals?

Conference: ADVANCING COMPREHENSIVE EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERVENTION - what parents, professionals, science, and national systems can tell us

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Early child and family support around b

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