ABSTRACT
One of the more tenuous threads concerns training teachers, leaders, visitors and helpers as well as parents. New programmes for training staff who will be responsible for working with young children are being set up in colleges of education, teachers' centres and further education colleges. Training programmes offer an opportunity to examine attitudes and methodology afresh. They also offer time, some of which could be spent making first-hand observations of community life and in learning directly from the experiences of social workers. The amorphous system of further and adult education facilities could be used much more closely with day schools to help meet the requirements of parents and teachers. There is no doubt that more opportunities for joint education and social service collaboration are provided at nursery and infant level than in other parts of the school system since more natural contact with parents is possible.
