Policies on Early Childhood Education

Running head: POLICIES ON EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
Policies on Early Childhood Education
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Fitzgerald, Damien, and Janet Kay. Understanding Early Years Policy. Sage, 2016.
The second chapter ‘Early Years of Foundation Stage’ of the book discusses about the
policies regarding childhood care and early childhood studies or education in England. It
explains the development in the policy Early Years Foundation Stage and effects of different
research on formulation of the curriculums for early childhood. The authors explained that
several researches had been done on the concerned topic and the findings led the government
to devise policies to improve early child education. The researchers found how poverty and
other deprivations affect the child education and care. Effective Provision of Pre-School
Education (EPPE) project the most effective among the research studied the effect of training
quality on early childhood education as decisive factor for development of children and their
learning. The chapter also discusses the role of parents on child’s development. Interaction
and partnership between parents and educational staff has an effect on children’s quality of
education and influences the relationship between children and parents. From the chapter it is
also known that better the quality of early childhood education better the children are
prepared for formal schooling. In the chapter, it is mentioned that underprivileged children
performs better during formal schooling if early pre-school training quality was good. The
studies suggested that to provide improved quality of early childhood education policies
should be formulated. It is been pointed out in the chapter that government took some hasty
decision to formulate policies and it continued until 2001. Later, government restructured the
public services that would improve the quality of children education and relationship quality
between children and parents. The government of England passed Children Act of 2004 and
introduced Every Child Matters (ECM), and made it mandatory for the Services to respond
the outcomes as directed in ECM. After, ECM government announced Choice for Parents,
The Best Start for Children: A ten Year Strategy for Childcare. The findings of Childcare Act
of 2006 are also mentioned in the chapter. The Children’s Plan has been covered in the