Educational intervention for young children who have experienced fragmented care

The rise in the number of younger children who present severe behaviour difficulties to their primary school teachers is of growing concern. It is no longer rare for children of 5 or 6 to be excluded from school because of their uncontrollable and often violent behaviour. Their difficulties have usually been associated with complex and disturbing early experiences – of emotional, physical or sexual abuse, of chronic neglect compounded by fragmented care.