Getting the Balance Right: Quality and Quantity in Early Education & Childcare

Autor/inn/en	Archer, Nathan; Merrick, Beatrice
Institution	Sutton Trust (United Kingdom)
Titel	Getting the Balance Right: Quality and Quantity in Early Education & Childcare
Quelle	(2020), (47 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Early Childhood Education; Educational Quality; Poverty; Economically Disadvantaged; Educational Policy; Public Policy; Foreign Countries; Child Care; Child Care Centers; Employed Parents; Labor Force Development; Achievement Gap; Educational Finance; Special Needs Students; Home Schooling; Early Childhood Teachers; Preschools; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Armut; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Öffentliche Ordnung; Ausland; Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Child care facilities; Child care services; Kinderzentrum; Arbeitskräftebestand; Bildungsfonds; Sonderpädagogischer Förderbedarf; Homeschooling; Home instruction; ; Hausunterricht; Heimschule; Early childhood education; Teacher; Teachers; Frühe Kindheit; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende
Abstract	The number of children in poverty looks set to rise and the gap in outcomes between the most disadvantaged children and their peers is likely to widen. Many families will face challenges of poverty, ill health, bereavement and unemployment, with knock-on effects for children's health and wellbeing. There are fears that children will miss out on their early education entitlements as parents' need for childcare and risk-benefit assessments of sending their children to nursery are influenced by new realities and perceptions. As part of a joined-up package of services, early childhood education can be a source of support for parents and an opportunity for children to thrive in a safe and supportive environment. Government needs to ensure that its early years policies keep in focus both the needs of young children and those of working parents. This report considers recent government policy on early childhood education and care in England, and whether the right balance is being achieved between, on the one hand, supporting child development and learning through high quality education provision and, on the other hand, raising parental employment through flexible, affordable childcare. This report is published with an accompanying brief looking at the effects of the crisis on early years in more detail. [For the accompanying brief, "COVID-19 and Social Mobility Impact Brief #4: Early Years. Research Brief," see ED609935.] (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01