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Discover how Starting Point fuels growth and success in the child care and youth out-of-school time sectors! 🌟📈 Learn more in our 2023 Annual Report: https://lnkd.in/etk5dSUp 📚🧒👧

Introducing Society for Research in Child Development's Child Policy Hub! 📢 Learn more about this new benefit with the goal to transform SRCD's policy programs ➡️ https://lnkd.in/ept-UFzZ

❗ Want to see changes in the care system like we do? 💜 We have recently launched our manifesto ‘Time to show you care’. 1. Urgently reform the care system so every child has the love, care and stability they need. 2. Make children’s relationships a key consideration in all decisions. 3. End the care cliff so young people can make a positive start to adulthood. 4. Improve the support provided to children and young people by other public services. 5. Put young people’s voices at the heart of the care system. The next Government must have higher aspirations for care-experienced children and young people and deliver meaningful change. ⬇️ Read more, sign or share our open letter: https://lnkd.in/eAWunMWT

Please read the just-published protocol paper for our "Rebuilding Emotional Stability and Strength Through Therapeutic and Life-Skills Education for Internally Displaced Persons (RESETTLE-IDPs) study" https://lnkd.in/gCa4cY8z

just a few days to go - submit your abstract on mainstreaming and youth perspective experiences and examples now!

"Serve and return" interactions are key to early development, shaping not just brain architecture but fostering lifelong curiosity and learning. The Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University highlights how nurturing environments support both cognitive and emotional growth. Reading together amplifies these benefits by creating a unique shared experience that builds and strengthens relationships while fostering bonding. #ReadingTogether creates moments that are powerful tools for early childhood development and relationship building. #EarlyChildhoodDevelopment #Literacy #ServeAndReturn #ChildDevelopment #ReadingTogether #RaisingaReader

WM2U, an approach funded by The Hunter Foundation and BBC Children in Need, has today published a paper to share how best we can help families in Dundee & East Ayrshire. The new paper explores what makes positive change possible, identifying five key aspects of voice-led system change. Over the past five years we've learned so much about how to enable children to flourish within their families - and we're excited to share this knowledge in the new paper, which you can read here: https://lnkd.in/e8YreSz4

A series of updates are available that give more detail of the evidence basis drawn on by the funders for this codifying report. https://lnkd.in/eDE2aJNm Mindful that #systemchange also includes engagement with and challenge to established perspectives about #evidence, we are interested in using these emerging insights to support wider dialogue about system change, including the place of evidence within it. In particular this learning partner report shares thinking about how to evaluate system change and offers emerging evidence of impact so far. https://lnkd.in/eeGitNbD Jo Kennedy Douglas McKelvie

We have long known that a child’s environment of relationships is critical for development. When we reduce sources of stress in a child and their caregiver's environment, we are supporting stronger, healthier child-caregiver relationships. Read Working Paper 1: Young Children Develop in an Environment of Relationships, from the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, to learn more: https://bit.ly/49yza8S

Chapter summary on the primary school experiences of over 1500 children in the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children ….. our shortest chapter in the report, much more to come. Full report https://lnkd.in/g2fiGmcM