Babies’ and children’s perspectives include their lived experiences, beliefs, preferences, concerns and interests. If we understand children’s perspectives, we can gain new insights into their lives. This can help us to improve the services and support that we provide.
Within PEDAL, we have researchers with expertise in eliciting young children’s perspectives. We wanted to understand how our research expertise might help other organisations to elicit and use young children’s perspectives in their practice.
In 2024, we worked with Home-Start Richmond, Kingston and Hounslow (RKH) to help them to develop a baby and child-centred approach, where staff and volunteers routinely seek out, capture and reflect on babies’ and young children’s perspectives to inform their work.
This paper describes the project. In it, we explain more about babies’ and young children’s perspectives, what the project with Home-Start RKH involved, and key lessons learned.
Babies' and young children's perspectives in practice
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