Acknowledgements
This free course was written by Jane Dorrian and Julie Powell and first published in July 2025.
OpenLearn course editor: Dale Harry.
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Figure 1: An information sheet from First 1001 Days Movement: Infographics - Parent-Infant Foundation.
Figure 2: William Fortunato/Pexels.
Figure 4: courtesy Early Years Wales https://www.earlyyears.wales/en.
Figure 5: Dragan Smiljkovic/Getty Images.
Figure 1: Keira Bufrton/Pexels
Figure 2: Yan Krukau/Pexels
Figure 3: Early Years Wales activity card: courtesy Early Years Wales. Early Years Wales, membership services to the Early Years sector in Wales.
Figure 4: UK Chief Medical Officers’ Physical Activity Guidelines, p. 23 (Published 7 September 2019). Crown Copyright 2019 Open Government Licence https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ .
Figure 5: Ermilo/Getty Images
Figure 1: courtesy Jane Dorrian.
Figure 2: zGel/Getty Images.
Figure 3: Image Source/Getty Images.
Figure 4: Front cover (including logos): Welsh Government (2022) A Curriculum for Funded Non-maintained Nursery Settings. https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ © Crown copyright 2022.
Figure 5: Early Years Wales activity cards. Courtesy Early Years Wales https://www.earlyyears.wales/en
Figure 6: Courtesy Early Years Wales https://www.earlyyears.wales/en.
Figure 1: Haibaron/Pixabay.
Figure 2: Karolina Kaboompics/Pexels.
Figure 4: Jep Gambardella/Pexels.
Figure 3: What is ‘family’? top left: Karolina Kaboompics/Pexels; top right: Kampus Production/Pexels; bottom left: Catalina Carvajal Herrera/Pexels; bottom right: Pexels.
Figure 1: Courtesy Jane Dorrian
Figure 2: Courtesy Jane Dorrian
Figure 3: Courtesy Ely and Caerau Children’s Centre https://www.cardiffeccc.cymru/
Figure 4: Courtesy Ely and Caerau Children’s Centre https://www.cardiffeccc.cymru/
Figure 6: Courtesy Ely and Caerau Childrens Centre https://www.cardiffeccc.cymru/
Figure 8: Courtesy Ely and Caerau Childrens Centre https://www.cardiffeccc.cymru/
Figure 9: Courtesy Ely and Caerau Childrens Centre https://www.cardiffeccc.cymru/
Figure 10: Child development graphic in Early Childhood Play, Learning and Care: Reflective Practice Toolkit: (p37) © Crown copyright 2023, Welsh Government, WG43340, Digital ISBN 978-1-83504-187-1 Open Government Licence
Figure 11: Engin Akyurt/Pexels
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Video 1: Experiences Build Brain Architecture: Courtesy: Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University https://developingchild.harvard.edu/.
Video 1: Babies Minds (extract) ©The Open University.
Video 2: Crawling – Feldenkrais with Baby Liv’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14gWirURq6I courtesy Irene Lyon.
Video 3: Jep Gambardella:/Pexels.
Video 4: Risky play © The Open University .
Video 1: Invitations to Play: Courtesy Early Years Wales https://www.earlyyears.wales/en.
Video 1: Attachment and Bonding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x9n16OuT6w courtesy Tusla, Child Family Agency https://www.tusla.ie/ .
Video 2: Harvey and Lizzie: ©The Open University.
Video 1: Incredible Babies Programme in Wales ©The Open University (2019).
Video 2: How babies communicate ©The Open University (2017).
Video 1: Thomas making a tower with girls; help © The Open University (2016)
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