A Whole-world Campaign for
Effective Joined-up Early Child and Family Support
New website for 2026. Can you help it grow?
The babies, infants and pre-school children featured in this website have some sort of significant difference, delay or challenge that gets in the way of their development, learning and quality of life.
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This campaign, starting in 2026, is essential:
I do not know any city, region or country that has effective joined-up early support for every child and family who needs it
Some places have no support
Other places have early support that is outdated and inadequate.
Below is a list of common problems I have experienced. How does it compare with where you live?
SOME COMMON PROBLEMS
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Each child can be wrongly treated as a collection of separate parts, not as a whole child. Practitioners often divide the child's development and learning into separate compartments that have no actual reality.
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Support for the child and family can be fragmented, disorganised and even chaotic with no concern for child or family's quality of life. This sort of support just adds to family stress and exhaustion.
3
Paediatric therapy is a confused and inappropriate concept. When offered in hospitals it can add to parent's stress and spoils the child' opportunities for inclusion in the local community.
4
In some places a child's learning is treated as a health issue. This is wrong. It is an issue for families where the first learning happens and then for pre-school education services.
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Practitioners are highly motivated to help children and, where they can, to support families as well. Very often their efforts are impeded by lack of training and an effective system to work in.
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There is no integrated early support workforce with a shared basic training for multidisciplinary practitioners. There is no governmental regulation and no inspection regime for the sector.
Please explore the sections below. They are intended to help
improve local early support or build a whole new system.
Can you contribute your knowledge to them?