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Penelope Leach, PhD, CBE, child psychologist, is a very well-known name, especially for the generation of parents who raised their children in the 1980s and 1990s with reference to her books: Babyhood (Leach, 1974), an account of child development accessible to the non-specialist, and Your Baby and Child (Leach, 1977; 1988; 1997), a book of common-sense childcare advice based on insights from child development, now in a new edition (Leach, 2022). Dr Penelope Leach has long been an important advocate for the wellbeing of young children, upholding children’s rights in many different roles and campaigns, including as Chair of the Child Development Society, 1994–95; Vice-President of the Health Visitors’ Association, 1988–99; and a founding member of the Association for Infant Mental Health UK, from 1998. |
