Kate launches new campaign about importance of early childhood?

[AllOutofEverything]

I have been reading about how Kate is launching a new awareness raising campaign about the importance of early childhood.
I had thought she launched this years ago and since then we have had the survey with the 5 big questions, her visits to nurseries, and her meetings with Early Years experts. I can't see how this is any different from what was announced in the past?

Summarising a million MN posts - Kate is only to be admired when she is doing nothing to draw attention, aka “never putting a foot wrong”.

As soon as royal women draw attention, be that supporting a cause or appearing in public with a hair out of place, they are roundly criticised.

The sooner royal women are replaced with robots, or better still, cardboard cutouts, the easier we will all breathe.

Wasn't there some big global event between that survey and now... can't quite place what it was but it involved severe disruption to early years services ... what was that.

@AllOutofEverything I have had a Google and wasn't surprised to not find a link to any notes from subsequent meetings (was that what you were asking me) I think these x-departmental groups tend to be not for public record as they may well be discussing policy in development. There are a couple of related APPGs which have their own websites...

Exactly. The Early Years campaign is intended to be a lifelong project for Kate, like The Prince's Trust for Charles or the Duke of Edinburgh Awards for Philip. She's only 41 so potentially has several decades of work in front of her.

I'd much rather see her listen to the experts and quietly build up knowledge on this complex subject rather than act as an instant expert with a stream of word salad waffle.

It's just so obvious that no matter what she does or doesn't do, some people will find fault, however much they may disingenuously pretend otherwise.

It's patronizing that a women of enormous wealth who.has nannies ,tutors ,exclusive private schools ,living in absolute luxury to help with her own children feels she has anything to.offer the Plebs.

@x2boys exactly

It's patronizing that a women of enormous wealth who.has nannies ,tutors ,exclusive private schools ,living in absolute luxury to help with her own children feels she has anything to.offer the Plebs.

She does have something to offer the plebs though - her profile. She can bring important issues into public debate. Hardly anyone can do this.

Honestly you sound like you think she's criticising your parenting or something, it's a bit broader than that.

But she's not claiming she has any unique insights. That's the whole point. She's spent time listening to experts in the field and will continue to work with them over the years. Surely a project aimed at helping young children, informed by experts and promoted by one of the most high profile women in the country, is a good thing?

And is there a cut off point at which a woman is too privileged to have anything to offer to society, or to 'the Plebs', to use your preferred term?

Bravo Kate.

How ridiculous to say only poor people can have a voice, view or participate on this subject!

Surely it's precisely that she sees the benefits for her kids that she is trying to get support for people less fortunate?

Also assume we'll to do people are automatically great at parenting the early years.

Odd thread and reductive and poor critical thinking by some.

Well apart from the fact that she really does need to be seen to be "doing something" it's a pity that the current government closed down so much of sure start etc etc and do nothing really that could really help early years, isn't it?

Also, why the big fuss now, this has been "Her thing" for ages. So why does she need a rebrand?

Maybe wouldn't need a new scheme if the Tories hadn't wrecked SureStart. I've no problem with Kate putting her name to this but pissed off as per usual with a government continually failing to deliver on the schemes it sets up

This is just a vanity project for Kate. She has kids so has to be seen to be doing something around kids, because there's nothing else, is there? The experts will be doing the work. It's not their job to teach her their specialist areas of expertise. Does she have anything to say that's unique?

Do you think this would have so much publicity if it wasn’t for Kate?

Do you feel the same about DofE and Prince’s Trust? Is it patronising for rich people to be telling kids to do volunteering for charities, to set up charities to help the young disadvantaged find a way in life.

I hope she focuses on the importance of interaction in the acquisition of speech and language. The knowledge about this in the general populace is dire. Even on here understanding is poor.
Children are arriving at school with very poor communication skills.
It's the key to everything and I hope her initiative finds a way to help

I really hope 'SureStart' gets a mention every time this campaign is covered.

We know how to improve the early years. The Tories just chose not to.

As has been said in previous posts, it’s not a re launch or a re brand. She said some time ago that she would be undertaking an initiative involving children’s early years and that she was preparing for that. This is presumably the result of the preparation

I tend to agree with you. Something has to be done and it needs money.

Absolutely right

The people slating her over this are the same ones who'd be praising MM if she was doing it. Predictable.

This is definitely not a 'New' thing she's allegedly been working on this for years, that said you'll never hear her speak because she's truly awful at speaking in public and the Royals are protecting her from ridicule.

She really struggles from being compared to Megan who has been an avid campaigner since her teens and has addressed the UN amongst other distinguished bodies. Megan is also a natural public speaker and again this make Kate look bad.

I don't dislike Kate but she's never really worked and in my opinion never used her elite education, so it's about time she did something and is seen to be doing it.

Didn’t she help to develop the ‘Tiny Happy People’ initiative with the BBC? I’ve used that a lot of times with my first baby born in lockdown!

And vice versa.

What's she actually doing, though? She did some pie charts, then some very very basic questions, but what if anything has actually been achieved? It's a bit embarrassing.

But did everyone who needed to, take advantage of Sure Start?

Obviously no point highlighting the importance of early years if there is no help available for parents who need it

Another thread bullying a woman in the public eye.

Nice.

OP, I hope your dc won't ever get bullied online and grow up to be more constructive and considerate. 🙏