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- January 31, 2023
Princess Kate launches new project focused on kids
Kate has made early childhood education a focus of her royal work.
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When launching the Center for Early Childhood in 2021, Kate said that her interactions over the years with teachers and parents, as well as people struggling with issues from homelessness to addiction to mental health, led her to see the importance of the earliest years of a person's life.
Ten years in the making… pic.twitter.com/U2jBaUSrH2
— The Prince and Princess of Wales (@KensingtonRoyal) June 17, 2021
In 2020, Kate launched a survey, \"5 big questions on the under 5s,\" that asked residents across the U.K. to share their thoughts on \"raising the next generation.\"
Last year, she took her work on early childhood development to the international stage, visiting Denmark to learn more about how the country has become a model for early childhood development, the palace said at the time.
While in Boston with William in December, Kate met with researchers at The Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University.
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Upon the launch of \"Shaping Us,\" the Center for Early Childhood released new data showing that 1 in 3 adults in the U.K. reported knowing \"just a little or nothing about how children develop in their early childhood,\" according to the palace.
\"All of society has a role to play in this, even if you are not directly involved in a child's life, because we are all responsible for building a more compassionate world in which our children can grow, learn and live,\" Kate said in a statement shared by Kensington Palace. \"In these difficult times, it is more important than ever to help support parents and caregivers provide loving, safe and secure homes for their babies and young children to thrive.\"
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