This book shows how early years practitioners can develop a worthwhile collaboration with parents. Drawing on their work with the parents and community at the renowned Pen Green Centre , the authors show: how to support parents as their child's first educator; how to provide practical and psychological support to parents; how to involve fathers and male carers; how to share important child development concepts; and how to support and extend children's learning; how to reach out to hard-to-reach parents. The book shows how, by documenting their own practice, staff in early years settings can develop new understandings and become more reflexive practitioners. It will essential reading for early
