It says children from birth to five are compounded by the impact of the pandemic and rising poverty amid the cost of living crisis.
The report calls for ‘a whole system review' of early education and childcare.
It notes that public policy continues to focus on school-age children much more so than babies and young children, and that policy and practice have not kept pace with changes in both the reality of early childhood and the lives of families with young children.
Almost all children now rely on the early childhood education and care system, which is not ‘fit for purpose and is in need of urgent reform’, the authors say.
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