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Andreas Culora; Claire Davey; Gabriela Freitas; Julia Griggs; Catherine Glaze; Brendan Parker; Synnove Rabbevaag; Beatriz Sasse; Robert Spence; Kathy Sylva – UK Department for Education, 2025
In June 2021, the Department for Education (DfE) announced the Early Years Education Recovery funding, a £180m package of support to help the sector recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. It comprised training programmes, qualifications, guidance and targeted whole setting support, delivered through a series of complimentary work programmes. This…
Descriptors: Mentors, Expertise, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Fufy Demissie; Sally Pearse – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2025
Despite the extensive research evidence about the importance of high-quality Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC), English policy makers continue to promote nurseries for the 'childcare' they provide, rather than the transformational effects they can have in areas of socio-economic challenge. The aim of this study was to investigate if and…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Educational Quality
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Sims, Margaret; Calder, Pamela; Moloney, Mary; Rothe, Antje; Rogers, Marg; Doan, Laura; Kakana, Domna; Georgiadou, Sofia – Issues in Educational Research, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has created an opportunity to examine the initial policies developed by Australian, Canadian, English, German, Greek and Irish governments to limit the spread of the virus. This has revealed governments' conceptualisation of the early childhood sector and its workforce. This paper argues that neoliberal ideology and…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, COVID-19, Pandemics, Disease Control