Celebrating nearly 50 years of operations, the Bernard van Leer Foundation publishes this issue of Early Childhood Matters as a reflection on the advances made over those past five decades on early education care and development. The first half of this is

Newborn mortality is one of the world’s most neglected health problems. It is estimated that globally, four million newborns die before they reach one month of age and another four million are stillborn each year. Deaths during the neonatal period (the fi