The article focuses on the early years provision report of the Parliament's Education Committee in Scotland. The committee recognised that raising the skill levels throughout the workforce is the most important factor in improving quality in the early years and child care sector. The Deputy ...
Early Years Scotland believes strongly that if we are going to give all children the best start in life, we need to offer, as part of the choice of funded provision, an additional service that complements the traditional nursery provision. This would also give parents, as well as their nurse...
Four main longitudinal patterns, or typologies, of childcare throughout the early years were identified; these mainly differentiated between childcare types used before the commencement of universal childcare provision in Scotland (which almost all children used). Children in the lowest socioeconomic circu...
Team Orange is a new challenge which can provide the provision of early life support for people with dementia and their families by a neighboring team of dementia supporters. People with dementia are expected to join the team as members. This paper reports on the dementia café carried out in...
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early years services have undergone a huge transformation - for example a significant increase in the scale of provision, the creation of an over-arching policy approach (Every Child Matters), the establishment of new departments focused on children and their families at local and national level, ...
School of Education, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland Paul Lynch Consortia EN-REACH collaborative group Mohammad Abdul Awal Miah , Proma Paul , Ismat Ara Mili , A K M Tanvir Hossain , Asraful Alam , Ziaul Haque Shaikh , Md. Nazmul Hasan , Salma Khatun , Adori Khatun , Monira...
Influenced by a growing concern to give form to the notion of lifelong learning, Iceland (1976), New Zealand (1989), Spain (1990), Slovenia (1993), Sweden (1996), England and Scotland (1998), Norway (2005) and Netherlands (2007) have brought early services into the ambit of education,...
During his early years in Scotland he was alarmed at the sectarian divide in the West of Scotland perpetuated through football, and set about using athletics as a means to bring different religious communities together. He initiated a series of Community Games where athletes of all backgrounds ...
This study has shown the benefits that are likely to be produced by the integration of childcare within education. It allows a society to rethink the purpose, provision and practice of ECCE across all age groups, including children both under and over 3 years. It can also provide an opportuni...