Jessica Johnson is Senior Lecturer in Early Years at Kingston University and currently Programme Leader for the Sector-Endorsed Foundation Degree in Early Years, Course Leader for the BA(Hons) ‘top-up’ in Early Years Education and Care, EYPS Senior Assessor and Project Leader for the Kingston, Merton and Richmond EYP Support Network. Rite of passage to this role started in the National Health Service, tuning in to babies, young children and their families at The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. They initiated ongoing curiosity in child development - specifically social and emotional relationships. Chameleon-like, she has experienced first-hand the challenges in creating positive, trusting relationships through roles in health, social care, education and as a mediator in the voluntary sector.

The students are engaging in a nursery placement at the moment. While they are now coming to the end of placement the ideas contained within this book would be useful in the next semester and with other years of the course. The book promotes the value of establishing good relationships in the early years - many of the students are in fact just school leavers with their only experience of the early years context from their own time there. Interesting and accessible.

• Why trust? The key to positive relationshipsTime to tune-in ... and outRespect for self and othersUnderstanding relationships with children in the context of professional boundariesTrusting relationships as a secure foundation for children′s learningSupporting other Early Years practitioners to build positive relationshipsReflection and learning as an Early Years Professional

Jessica Johnson is Senior Lecturer in Early Years at Kingston University and currently Programme Leader for the Sector-Endorsed Foundation Degree in Early Years, Course Leader for the BA(Hons) ‘top-up’ in Early Years Education and Care, EYPS Senior Assessor and Project Leader for the Kingston, Merton and Richmond EYP Support Network. Rite of passage to this role started in the National Health Service, tuning in to babies, young children and their families at The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. They initiated ongoing curiosity in child development - specifically social and emotional relationships. Chameleon-like, she has experienced first-hand the challenges in creating positive, trusting relationships through roles in health, social care, education and as a mediator in the voluntary sector.

The students are engaging in a nursery placement at the moment. While they are now coming to the end of placement the ideas contained within this book would be useful in the next semester and with other years of the course. The book promotes the value of establishing good relationships in the early years - many of the students are in fact just school leavers with their only experience of the early years context from their own time there. Interesting and accessible.

• Why trust? The key to positive relationshipsTime to tune-in ... and outRespect for self and othersUnderstanding relationships with children in the context of professional boundariesTrusting relationships as a secure foundation for children′s learningSupporting other Early Years practitioners to build positive relationshipsReflection and learning as an Early Years Professional

Jessica Johnson is Senior Lecturer in Early Years at Kingston University and currently Programme Leader for the Sector-Endorsed Foundation Degree in Early Years, Course Leader for the BA(Hons) ‘top-up’ in Early Years Education and Care, EYPS Senior Assessor and Project Leader for the Kingston, Merton and Richmond EYP Support Network. Rite of passage to this role started in the National Health Service, tuning in to babies, young children and their families at The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. They initiated ongoing curiosity in child development - specifically social and emotional relationships. Chameleon-like, she has experienced first-hand the challenges in creating positive, trusting relationships through roles in health, social care, education and as a mediator in the voluntary sector.

The students are engaging in a nursery placement at the moment. While they are now coming to the end of placement the ideas contained within this book would be useful in the next semester and with other years of the course. The book promotes the value of establishing good relationships in the early years - many of the students are in fact just school leavers with their only experience of the early years context from their own time there. Interesting and accessible.

• Why trust? The key to positive relationshipsTime to tune-in ... and outRespect for self and othersUnderstanding relationships with children in the context of professional boundariesTrusting relationships as a secure foundation for children′s learningSupporting other Early Years practitioners to build positive relationshipsReflection and learning as an Early Years Professional