![]() ![]() Nearly a third of five-year-olds are not reaching a good level of development, according to their teachers, and the gap between more disadvantaged children and their peers at five has already opened up significantly. The foundation launch was accompanied by an inaugural report which made sobering reading. I’m no ardent royalist but it’s impossible not to see the extraordinary good they do when it comes to these kinds of projects By looking at this period in a person’s life, the idea behind the foundation is that we can prevent problems before they even begin. I’ve often thought that this is both scary, because of the responsibility it places on care givers, but also incredibly uplifting because it means that if we can just intervene at the right time, we aren’t slaves to our genetics. ![]() While we think of things like addiction, homelessness and mental illness as being things that afflict adults, more often than not they have their roots firmly in childhood. We know that the early years of childhood can make all the difference to what happens in adulthood. Focusing on early childhood is actually a genius move if you want to address the problems she will have seen through her charity work. Her answer is The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood, which launched last month. ![]() But one really gets a sense that Kate has spent the last decade actually listening to the people she has met and thinking about how she could help. It would be easy to just rock up, cut a few ribbons and pop back to your palace. She is using her extraordinary reach and celebrity to champion the weakest, the dispossessed and the disenfranchised. Kate is showing herself to be a thoroughly modern royal. As naff as this sounds, she comes across as actually caring and wanting to use her position of power and influence to do some good which is quite refreshing in today’s self-obsessed, navel-gazing world where those in the public eye only seem to care if there’s a long-lens camera trained on them while they do their good deeds.Īlong with William she has championed causes such as mental health which were profoundly uncool when they first adopted them and are now considered in vogue in no small part thanks to their involvement. I wonder if the royal family realise how lucky they are to have Kate? She may have been born a commoner, but she is proving herself to be the best asset the Firm have. ![]()
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