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Horvath, Attila – Eurydice, 2008
The education and care of children is traditionally a family duty in the Hungarian culture. This is especially true for small (under 3 years) children. This is well transcribed into the social-welfare system: the child care allowance is paid for the mother for up to the second birthday of the child. Even after there is another kind of allowance…
Descriptors: Child Care, Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Compulsory Education
Turnsek, Nada; Batistic, Marcela Zorec – Eurydice, 2008
Slovenia has a single structure of preschool education system providing comprehensive education and care (educare) for children aged one to six (more precisely, from the end of maternity leave to the child's entering compulsory school). It is offered mostly by public preschool institutions (vrtci). Preschool education is a part of the whole system…
Descriptors: Child Care, Preschool Education, Foreign Countries, Preschool Children
Fallourd, Pierre, Comp. – Eurydice, 2008
This contribution from France is based on recently-published documents and in particular on the "Report on the Public Infancy Service for Early Childhood," published in February 2007 by a department of the Prime Minister's Office, the Centre of Strategic Analysis, Social Affairs Section and "Early Childhood Education and Care, a…
Descriptors: Child Care, Nursery Schools, Foreign Countries, Preschool Children
Eurydice, 2008
Dutch child care can be described as organized provision with care, guidance and additional education for children from 0-16 years old, by other people than parents or guardians in a way that is adapted to the space of twenty-four hours and the age of children and to the needs of parents or guardians. Child care in the Netherlands is characterized…
Descriptors: Child Care, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Preschool Children
Branska, Ewa – Eurydice, 2008
In Poland centre-based education and care for children from birth to the age of entry into compulsory school education, i.e. 7 years, is provided in creches ("zlobki") for children aged 0-3 years and in nursery schools ("przedszkola") for children from 3 years of age to the age of entry into primary school. Creches are part of…
Descriptors: Child Care Centers, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Nursery Schools
Schifflers, Leonhard – Eurydice, 2008
The policies adopted by the public authorities in the German-speaking Community to promote the education and care of young children below compulsory school age are not aimed directly via targeted measures at groups of young children considered to be "at risk," but rather at covering all young children and providing their families with…
Descriptors: Child Care, Preschool Education, Foreign Countries, Preschool Children