CYP Now - Imagine if there was no early years

Stop, take a minute and imagine a world without the pre-school learning sector. What would that world be like, we wonder?

Without early years settings children would struggle to develop social and personal skills, experts say. Picture: Adobe Stock

Maybe children would arrive on their first at school, around the age of four, with much less developed personal and social skills.

They may have a deep sense of unfamiliarity, being unaware of expected routines and behaviours, they may not have many friends in school - or have the ability to readily make new ones. They might come from a large extended family and have experience of peers – but equally they might be the only (or first) child and find the social element overwhelming and bewildering.

They could be distressed at detaching from their care-givers for even the briefest of moments. They would be unlikely to be used to adults they had not always known, and this could be a very challenging aspect for some children.

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