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Best Beginnings

Kids EN ↓ 28 episodes

Best Beginnings is the podcast for everyone working in or caring about the early years. Hosted by George Looker, CEO of Babyzone, each episode brings together leading researchers, clinicians, practitioners, policymakers and parents to explore the evidence, ideas and innovations shaping how we support children and families in the UK.From infant mental health and attachment to workforce challenges and systems change, Best Beginnings goes beyond the headlines to have the conversations that matter most in early childhood. New episodes drop every Tuesday. Best Beginnings is brought to you by Babyzo...

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Early Autism, Baby Sleep and What Every Parent Needs to Know | Professor Emily Jones 14.04.2026 36:06

What can we actually know about a child's development in the first year of life? And what should parents do with that information? Professor Emily Jones is Professor of Neuroscience at King's College London, leads the BOND lab at Birkbeck University and is Principal Investigator of BASIS, the British Autism Study of Infant Siblings, which has followed hundreds of babies from six months through chi...

You Only Get One Chance at This | Neil Leitch on Best Beginnings 07.04.2026 41:10

Neil Leitch has spent decades fighting for the early years sector to be taken seriously. As CEO of the Early Years Alliance, the largest early years membership organisation in England, he has seen what happens when families don't get the support they need in the earliest years of life and what changes when they do. In this episode we talk about a freedom of information request that took two and a...

Introducing Best Beginnings 07.04.2026 18:29

1 million new neural connections form in a child's brain every single second during the first three years of life. By the time a child turns two, more than 80% of their brain architecture is already in place. And yet, as a society, we invest the least in the years that matter most. That's what Best Beginnings is here to change. In this opening monologue, George Looker makes the case for why the ea...