Jan White works nationally and abroad as an independent consultant to advocate and support high quality outdoor provision for services for children from birth to five. With twenty-five years experience of working in education, she has developed a deep commitment to the consistently powerful effect of the outdoors on young children. Having played a key role in developing Learning through Landscape's support for the early years sector and in Early Excellence's Stepped Approach to Quality Outdoors, she is currently an Early Education Associate, pedagogical adviser for PlayGarden and mentor to Sandfield Natural Play Centre. She is author of 'Playing and Learning Outdoors: making provision for high quality experiences in the outdoor Environment' (Routledge 2008) and editor of 'Outdoor Provision in the Early Years' (Sage 2011).

Jan White