Nursery World - EYFS best practice: All about ... relationships and feelings in the nursery

Nursery staff working with the key person approach may feel overwhelmed at times by their own emotions in the course of their job. Penelope Leach PhD has advice on how to cope.

Your job really matters. The work you do in a nursery is extremely important because better care means better development for children, especially for babies and toddlers.

The quality of the care that they receive matters more to children than anything else about nursery, even more than the age they are when they begin or the number of hours a week they spend there.

And although 'high-quality care' is made up of lots of different elements, the most important - the one that underpins all the rest - is you, the care provider, and the relationship between you and the child. So never doubt that you matter to each and every one of the children you care for.

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