Welcome
Scotland has a long tradition of high quality early years provision. However, despite strong government policy and the knowledge that helping young children grow up well during the early years is more important and effective than investing money later, it has been difficult to implement these policies, due to a number of factors which we hope to identify.
What we do
We engage with policy makers, practitioners and parents through seminars, conferences, research and publications. Information about our current and previous work can be found on the Events and Events Archive pages.
Our recent conference on Saturday, 3 November 2018, held at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on the topic of The Natural Voice of Young Children: Making Sense of Learning Through Play, included a wide range of inspirational and informational presentations and workshops. The conference organisers would like to thank all who took part and helped to make the day so successful – many thanks to all of the presenters, outside organisations and audience members.
 | Colwyn Trevarthen, Jonathan Delafield-Butt and Aline-Wendy Dunlop have co-edited a book, published in September 2018, The Child's Curriculum: Working with the natural voices of young children. |
Colwyn Trevarthen, Jonathan Delafield-Butt and Aline-Wendy Dunlop have co-edited a book, The Child’s Curriculum: Working with the natural voices of young children. For more details or to order a copy from Amazon, click HERE.
In 2016 we published an independent study that investigated The Contribution of GTCS-registered Teachers as part of the Early Learning and Childcare Workforce in Scotland, funded by the Educational Institute of Scotland.
The Executive Summary of the Report ‘Sustaining the Ambition’ can be found HERE
The booklet “Sustain the Ambition’ containing the key messages from the report can be downloaded HERE
The full report can be downloaded HERE
Please fill in this short survey about the ‘Sustain the Ambition’ report and how you are using its findings: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/VVSV5HJ