This section of Trio’s evolving website will include latest research in areas that will be of interest to childcare practitioners.

We will endeavour to keep this section of our website current and if you come across any news or research that you feel is worth sharing please email us so we can assess its’ appropriateness and if deemed valuable will place it for access on the site acknowledging your role in instigating this support.

Thank you.

How can the voice of the child and children’s participation effectively empower Registered Childminders to become Reflective Practitioners?

I undertook research with childminders around reflective practice, listening to children and professional development for my BA Hons Early Years Care and Education earlier this year. I would like to take this opportunity of thanking each and every childminder who either completed a questionnaire for me, participated in a focus group or just gave me their thoughts over the telephone, email or in person. You can read the paper here [PDF Document]. I hope you find, in some way, my research a little interesting.

This was a piece of research undertaken in a very limited period of 3 months and can be seen as phase 1 of the study with perhaps another 9 months required to follow on this research and make it a truly meaningful document rather than a means to an end. Nevertheless, this valuable process brought about many discussions for Trio around our support services and continues to provide the framework for developing these.

Julia Hinns, MD
julia.hinns@triochildcare.co.uk