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A Baby Room Project in East Sussex is improving interactions with children under 18 months, report Laura Piper and Verity Green

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Baby room practitioners in East Sussex have been reflecting on their day-to-day interactions with the children in their care and researching how to improve their practice in early communication. The project, focusing on developing and understanding interactions with children aged under 18 months old, was inspired by the Baby Project conducted by Professors Kathy Goouch and Sacha Powell at Canterbury Christ Church University.

We wanted to encourage reflection and self-confidence among baby room practitioners and were delighted that Professor Goouch agreed to mentor us.

SELF-CONFIDENCE

Practitioners from 14 diverse settings across the county chose to take part in the first phase, which launched in November 2017 with a conference for the project leads from each setting and their managers. Professor Goouch inspired them by speaking about the importance of professionalism in baby rooms and that through the project they were joining research not just locally but nationally and internationally.

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