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Early childhood care and development (ECCD)
The first six years of a child’s life is a time of great promise and rapid change, when their developing brain is most open to the influence of relationships and experiences. However, millions of children across the world are at risk of not reaching their full potential because they do not get the care and stimulation they need in the early stages of life.
To achieve the SDGs and ensure that all girls and boys, especially the most deprived, are developmentally on-track we need to start early. Save the Children works with families and communities to help children to develop foundational learning skills in the years leading up to school. Save the Children also works with communities and partners to advocate for policies and practices that recognise the value of starting early and investing in cost-effective, inclusive quality approaches to ECCD.
Our goal is that all children will access quality inclusive early childhood care and demonstrate improved child development outcomes.
Save the Children’s experience shows that to reach the most vulnerable children, we need to go beyond preschools. High quality caregiving must be supported both in homes and in early learning centres to build strong foundations for young girls and boys. Moreover, rural, linguistic minority and refugee children need urgent support as they are falling behind. Save the Children works to address these gaps through targeted interventions, such as early learning programmes that support children’s learning at home in emergency and post-disaster settings, among remote and nomadic communities, and in areas where preschools are not available or accessible.
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Ես գիտեմ իմ երեխային, իսկ դո՞ւ
ձեռնարկը նախատեսված է 0-6 տարեկան երեխաներ ունեցող ծնողների համար. այն պատմում է վաղ մանկության զարգացման և առողջության, դաստիարակության մեթոդների, ինչպես նաև երեխայի հանդեպ բռնության դրսևորումների մասին: I know my child, what about you? The guide aims to
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Early Language Development and Children's Primary School Attainment in English and Maths: New research findings
One child in five starts primary school in England without the language skills they need to succeed, a figure that rises to one in three of the poorest children. This briefing paper presents new findings that show the real consequences for children who ar
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Emergent Literacy and Math (ELM) Results: Bangladesh
In 2011, Save the Children field tested early childhood development resources geared toward developing emergent literacy and math (ELM) skills in young children. Testing was done as a part of a USAID-funded early childhood care and development (ECCD) prog
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Exploration of the Status of Services for Immigrant Families in Early Childhood Education Programs
Immigrants make up at least 15 percent of the population in more than 50 countries. In 2005, “One in every three international migrants lived in Europe and one in every four international migrants lived in North America.” At age 3 and 4, children in immi
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Interactions Between Maternal Parenting and Children's Early Disruptive Behavior: Bidirectional associations across the transition from preschool to school entry
This study was a prospective 2-year longitudinal investigation of associations between negative maternal parenting and disruptive child behavior across the preschool to school transition. Our main goals were to 1) determine the direction of association be
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Budget and legal analysis of Early Childhood Education in Kosovo
Projects of Save the Children in Kosovo/a (SCiK) in education are aimed to improve the situation of children and children’s access to inclusive education, particularly pre-school education.This budget analysis on early childhood education and care service
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Developmental Consequences of Early Parenting Experiences: Self-recognition and self-regulation in three cultural communities
This study relates parenting of 3-month-old children to children’s self-recognition and self-regulation at 18 to 20 months. As hypothesized, observational data revealed differences in the sociocultural orientations of the 3 cultural samples’ parenting sty
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Early Development and Children's Later Educational Outcomes: Research briefing
Giving every child the best start in life is more than a question of fairness; it's an essential requirement for a country that works for everyone. This briefing paper shows that if children are going to get on at school it's vital that they get the suppo