This new textbook offers an accessible introduction to health and wellbeing in the early years. It explores what is meant by physical, social, emotional, intellectual and spiritual wellbeing and explains its importance for young children especially in relation to their health and protection. Providing all the essential knowledge needed to understand the interplay of issues surrounding children’s health and wellbeing, the book covers:

• who cares for children’s health
• parenting and attachment;
• safeguarding and child protection;
• multidisciplinary partnerships;
• social and economic wellbeing;
• family matters;
• inequalities and health.