This user-friendly textbook gives students everything they need for the brand new BTEC First Children's Care, Learning and Development Certificate and Diploma.

Children are already learning at birth, and they develop and learn at a rapid pace in their early years. This provides a critical foundation for lifelong progre

The basic information family child care providers need to run a successful program in a warm, welcoming setting for children and their families

How we raise young children is one of today's most highly personalized and sharply politicized issues, in part because each of us can claim some level of "exper