A Whole-world Campaign for
Effective Joined-up Early Child and Family Support
New website in preparation for January 2026
The babies, infants and pre-school children this website is discussing have some sort of difference, delay or challenge that gets in the way of their development, learning and quality of life
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This earlysupportimprovement.com website is essential. I do not know any city, region or country that has effective joined-up early support for every child 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 Other places have early support that is outdated and inadequate.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. How does this compare with where you live?
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COMMON PROBLEMS
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Each child can be treated as a collection of separate parts, not as a whole child. Practitioners wrongly 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
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Paediatric therapy is often offered in hospitals in a way that adds to parent's stress and spoils the child' opportunities for inclusion in the local community
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In some places a child's development and learning is treated as a health issue. This is wrong. It is an issue for families (where the first learning happens) and then for preschool education services.
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Practitioners are highly motivated to help children and, where they can, to support familiers as well. Very often their efforts are impeded by lack of an effective system to work in.
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There is no integrated early support workforce with a shared basic training for all practitioners. There is no governmental regulation and no inspection regime for the sector.
Please explore the sections below (all in preparation)
They are intended to help if you are trying to improve your local early support
or build a whole new system
Joined-up support for the whole family