Julia Manning-Morton is an Independent Consultant and Group Facilitator for ‘Key Times Professional Development’. She is also a Froebel Travelling Tutor, an Associate Trainer for Early Education and part of the Pikler (UK) Association. Her career in the early childhood field spans 40 years and diverse roles as a practitioner, manager, adviser and inspector and also as a lecturer in Early Childhood Studies at London Metropolitan University. Julia is passionate about the personal, social and emotional well-being of children and practitioners and on practice and provision that meets the needs of children from birth to three years old; her training, research and writing is focused on enabling, empowering and enthusing practitioners to make positive contributions to the lives of babies, young children and their families. Julia’s latest publications are: Foundations of Being: Understanding Young Children's Emotional, Personal and Social Development (2017); Childcare and Education co-written with C Meggitt and T Bruce (2016, 6th edition); Two Year Olds in Early Years Settings; Journeys of Discovery co-written with M Thorp (2015); and Exploring Well-being in the Early Years (2014).