This book explores the problems involved in touching children in an educational environment. It uses real-life examples taken from groundbreaking research into the mentality of today s risk culture, and highlights a maddening state of affairs in which ordinary well-meaning professionals feel they cannot offer even very young children basic levels of comforting or affection.

This fascinating and long-overdue book examines the no-touch pandemic in early years settings, by use of extensive interviews with practitioners, parents and pupils, which:

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