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Enabling Environments: Under-threes - Hue and cry

Do practitioners need to be careful about the colours or visual contrasts they put before young babies? Julian Grenier takes a look at scientific evidence.

Nothing could be more welcome than the current high level of interest in how babies are cared for in nurseries. There are numerous 'baby room projects' going on across the country, most notably the research project being led by Canterbury Christ Church University, and the training project led by Northamptonshire council. Early Education's new 'Baby Room Special Interest Group' has generated huge interest, too. It feels much better than the way things were a few years ago, when I was advised that a not terribly good nursery practitioner working with three- and four-year-olds 'would probably be okay for the baby room'.

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