While there is an acceptance birth to seven years is a uniquely significant and dramatically formative period of children’s development and growth, there remains an untapped opportunity to reach consensus in defining its explicit nature and content.
There is a general agreement all children benefit from a high quality ECE experience, although when this is the focus of debate, there is often lack of clarity, agreement, or acknowledgement of what this means in practice. Although a steady flow of Government sponsored and other evidence appears to indicate the emergence of agreed precepts of quality, there exists a need to untangle narratives in both what this is and how they are most effectively achieved. The dialogue between politically and nationally derived ECE policy and day-to-day practice can unnecessarily compete, and we think new and positive opportunities for recognition and understanding of how ECE needs to ‘work’ are there for the taking.
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