the Princess of Wales It is promoting its new Early Childhood campaign which aims to ‘give generations of children the best start in life’.
Kate Post a video to Twitter Today they tease the launch of the campaign beyond She met her team of counselors about it for the first time earlier this week.
The royal family meeting came as Kensington Palace said Kate’s work is being accelerated through the Royal Early Childhood Foundation’s center to promote the importance of the first five years of a child’s life.
Full details of the new campaign weren’t given, but Kate told counselors she’s “excited” about the project and said a key area that could be looked at is how to “develop the social and emotional skills necessary for later life.”
Princess Kate posted a video on Twitter today teasing the launch of the campaign after meeting her team of advisors on the subject for the first time earlier this week.
“I’m so excited for next week, there’s a lot coming out,” Kate told the team. Today I just want to think and discuss what’s really next. How do we keep this conversation going?
This campaign is really about trying to raise awareness of the importance of this issue. And that’s kind of what we can do collectively to keep the conversation going and what we’re going to do next.
Kate said it is about what helps shape us, what shapes our relationships, the emotional experience of childhood and about creating the “building blocks and scaffolding” for how we begin to understand ourselves and others.
“These are really complex and big issues that need to be looked at,” she said. But I think, from the center’s point of view, one of the main key areas is how to develop the social and emotional skills that are necessary for later life. How do we better manage and regulate our emotions? How do we build better relationships?
The princess held talks with eight academics representing sectors including neuroscience, psychology, perinatal psychiatry, early years services and policy development at Windsor Castle on Wednesday.
She said the team deals with “big questions and big themes” and is “complex”.
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“I’m so excited for next week, there’s a lot coming out,” Kate told the team. She was pictured during her meeting with the Early Years Advisory Group at Windsor Castle on Wednesday
Princess Kate speaks with experts from across academia, science and the early years sector, including Professor Peter Fonagy, Professor Eamon McCrory, Dr Alan Gregoire, Dr Trudy Seneviratne, Ed Venker, Carrie Oppenheim, Imran Hussain and Beverley Barnett-Jones, at Windsor Castle on Wednesday
The center builds on research showing that the first five years of childhood essentially shape adulthood, with social challenges such as addiction, violence, family breakdown, homelessness, and mental health rooted in the first years of life.
Advisory panel member Dr Trudy Seneviratne, registrar at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, believes that “our experience in the early years lays the foundations for the rest of our lives”.
She noted that policymaking can be “quite piecemeal”, adding: “Having a policy that combines the importance of the early years with helping people to collaborate in their thinking is really critical.
This will help in developing the service. It will help in the search. He will help with education. It will really help the workforce that takes care of young children and everyone else.
Dr Sneviratne continued: “We need all governments to buy into this as a really ambitious long-term program that really continues regardless of government changes – and that’s really important.
We cannot have constant change, so policy must be included in education, health care, maternity care, postpartum care and in all health and social care that supports families and needs to continue. It must grow and expand – and this is extremely important.
“I think we’re having a lot of problems with projects opening and closing — and it’s not really good enough for the child or the family.”
Consultant perinatal psychiatrist Dr Alain Gregoire, president and founder of the Maternal Mental Health Alliance, said early years research has advanced to the point where experts know there are things that can be done to change lives for the better.
He said, “It is something that can touch the whole of society and every single one of us. A very important message in the early years is that it’s never too early – so, we’re talking from the very beginning of pregnancy, from conception onwards.
We can change the cycles of life, health, and happiness of individuals.
But it’s not too late, so, by understanding the early years, we can actually better understand ourselves, the people around us, and our communities.
“And we can do things that can help improve the quality of life for ourselves just with that understanding.”
The royal family meeting came as Kensington Palace said Kate’s work is being accelerated through the Royal Early Childhood Foundation’s center to promote the importance of the first five years of a child’s life.
Kate (pictured during Wednesday’s meeting) said the team is dealing with “big questions and big topics” and they are “complex”.
The center builds on research that shows that the first five years of childhood form the basis of adulthood, with social challenges such as addiction, violence, family breakdown, homelessness, and mental health rooted in the first years of life.
Professor Peter Fonagy, Chair of Psychology and Language Sciences at University College London, agreed to join the advisory committee because he believes the center ‘will be the most influential and effective organization representing the interests of parents and infants for some time’. to come’.
He added that participation in it could “benefit in a small way the well-being of generations and generations in this country and beyond”.
Eamonn McCrory, professor of developmental neuroscience and psychopathology at University College London, is interested in how research, particularly in neuroscience, may spur societal change and improve a child’s physical, social and mental health in the future.
He believes the center has “extraordinary potential to transform our understanding and approach to the first five years of life.”
Carrie Oppenheim, of the Nuffield Foundation, said that “getting the basics right in early childhood is part of creating a more resilient, productive and equitable society for all of us” and “the formative early years of a child’s life provide the building blocks for these children’s long-term development and well-being.” the long.
Beverly Barnett-Jones, Associate Director at the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory, comes to the commission with over 30 years’ experience working in frontline children’s social care.
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However, with the right help at the right time, many problems that arise in later life can be mitigated, or even prevented, through early intervention in their lives.
“Working with and supporting the Royal Foundation will help better understand these children’s life journeys without stigma, along with their families, as it provides a community focus on what a village can look like that raises all our children well.”
Also on the panel were Ed Venker, co-founder of Reach Academy Feltham, a free, high-achieving school in a disadvantaged area of West London that he started from scratch, and Imran Hussain, Director of Policy and Campaigns for Action for Children.