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SUMMARY:Webinar: Quality assurance in early childhood education and care services
DESCRIPTION:Download the presentation slides of this webinar here. \nDate \n20th September 2022 from 9.30-11.00 CET \nTitle \nQuality assurance in early childhood education and care services \nSpeaker \nSven Iversen\, Managing Director. AGF (Association of Family organisations)\, Germany. \nDescription \nEarly childhood education and care (ECEC) has undergone major dynamics and changes throughout the last years in Germany. There are discrepancies between families’ reported needs for places in early childhood education and care and the actual participation rates of children attending early childhood services. Still\, the proportion of children under three years of age that attend publicly subsidised community-based early childhood education and care or family day care is increasing continuously. \nFrom the perspective of the family organisations joined under the umbrella of AGF in Germany the following aspects of the quality of ECEC services have to be taken into account: general access to childcare and its opening hours\, qualification and training of professionals\, professional-child-ratio and maximum group size\, development of guidelines for pedagogic work\, training and educational partnership as well as long-term quality assurance. \nJoin us to hear about the work of AGF which has been advocating for strong investments in early childhood and closely monitoring the European Child Guarantee developments. \nMore information\nhttps://www.ag-familie.de/home/dokumente.html?en \nEU context \nThere are similar dynamics and challenges in many countries regarding the development of quality early childhood education and care\, which is why the European Union has taken different initiatives in the last years: \nMay 2019: Council Recommendation on High-Quality Early Childhood Education and Care Systems\nThis recommendation identifies 5 key components of a qualitative system: access to early childhood education and care; training and working conditions of staff in charge of early childhood education and care; definition of appropriate curricula; governance and funding; monitoring and evaluation of systems. The Quality Framework has already supported reforms in many countries and helped improving the offer of early childhood education and care. \nJune 2021: Council Recommendation establishing a European Child Guarantee\nOn the day of the breakfast byte webinar\, the following countries have published their National Action Plans on the Child Guarantee: Belgium\, Croatia\, Denmark\, Estonia\, Finland\, France\, Ireland\, Italy\, Luxembourg\, Malta\, The Netherlands\, Poland\, Spain\, Sweden. More here \nSeptember 2022: Proposal for a Council Recommendation on Early childhood education and care \nThis was proposed by the European Commission as part of the European Care Strategy package launched on 7th September\, and should be adopted by the Council of the EU by end of 2022. More here \n_______________________ \n  \nAfter a great year 2021 connecting with the COFACE Family Lab community through regular breakfast byte webinars looking at different types of supports to families (a support service\, a campaign\, a policy\, a project\, and more) we launched a new breakfast byte series again in 2022. \nIt is focusing on diverse types of family supports across the EU\, including campaigns on inclusive education\, cross-border recognition of familial ties\, family leadership for an inclusive life\, employment supports to adults with disabilities\, tips for child safety in the home\, training of non-formal education staff for working with children with and without special needs\, building energy systems which put families before profits and more. \nWith these breakfast bytes\, we aim to increase critical thinking and understanding of family support systems. The target group of the webinars is especially professionals working with families and children but is open to all (researchers\, policy-makers\, teachers\, health workers\, families\, and more). It is more important than ever to connect professionals through transnational exchanges in order to tackle the social impacts of COVID-19 on families and children. \nDid you miss our breakfast Bytes series or you would like to re-watch it? You can find it on COFACE TV\, our Youtube channel. \n  \nDownload the presentation slides of this webinar here.
URL:https://coface-eu.org/event/webinar-quality-assurance-in-early-childhood-education-and-care-services/
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SUMMARY:Stepping up implementation of the EU Child Guarantee: National action plans in the spotlight
DESCRIPTION:By calling on EU Member States to guarantee access to basic rights and services for children in need and their families\, the Child Guarantee represents a pivotal and timely instrument to enhance the protection of children experiencing poverty and social exclusion. Moreover\, it lays the foundation for a stronger social and equity-driven Europe. Over the last months\, it has been up to each EU Member State to draw up their Child Guarantee national action plans to outline how the framework will concretely be implemented in their respective countries until 2030. \nThe war in Ukraine and the ensuing crisis shows again that it is by consolidating family support systems\, based on a mix of resources\, services\, and leaves which are accessible to all families without discrimination\, that the European Union will be resilient and strong enough to absorb shocks. \nCOFACE and AGF hosted an expert meeting in Berlin to: \n\nexamine the measures highlighted in the national action plans on the Child Guarantee to boost family supports;\nstudy policy and service solutions to enhance child and family well-being;\nbring together family policy-makers working to improve outcomes for children and their families;\nboost the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan.\n\nWorking languages: English and German \nParticipation on invitation only. \n____________________ \nKey takeaways \n\nTechnical guidelines for implementation was highlighted as one way to support national ministries in the implementation process. Guidelines on measurement\, indicators\, monitoring\, evaluation. Going via the Technical Support Instrument is a great opportunity of course\, and used by many with lots of added value. But maybe an operational document with general technical guidelines (and not country-specific) could boost implementation further.\nThe biennial European Commission report on implementation could include both policy and funding updates\, namely on the use of EU funds for the Child Guarantee.\nWorking in partnership with the target groups remains central\, and civil society organisations are there to facilitate this.\nChild participation can take many forms\, from more simple to more elaborate forms. That diversity of participation forms can be a big help to bring the voices of children to the process in a meaningful way.\nThe importance of the Child Guarantee coordinator cannot be underestimated\, to bring a transversal approach to the implementation process and to function as ambassador for the Child Guarantee in other ministries.\nKey governance pointers were mentioned such as having a focal point on the CG in each ministry or in each region\, creating a children’s council\, building interdepartmental committees for coordination\, developing local action plans (relevant given regional/local differences highlighted today)\, allocating specific budgets for implementation in national budgets but also in the EU funds.\nWhether building on existing laws or developing new laws\, any approach is relevant\, respected and valued. However\, two points are essential: embedding the Child Guarantee as much as possible in national legal&policy processes\, and also ensuring that family diversity is recognized in national legislation\, to ensure full access to social rights and financial supports to deal with difficult life transitions.\nThe challenges of today are many (COVID\, war\, inflation)\, but they can help highlight gaps in our social systems and help focus on filling these gaps.\n\nSee full meeting report here \n  \n____________________ \nUseful links \nMay 2019: Council Recommendation on High-Quality Early Childhood Education and Care Systems\nThis recommendation identifies 5 key components of a qualitative system: access to early childhood education and care; training and working conditions of staff in charge of early childhood education and care; definition of appropriate curricula; governance and funding; monitoring and evaluation of systems. The Quality Framework has already supported reforms in many countries and helped improving the offer of early childhood education and care. \nJune 2021: Council Recommendation establishing a European Child Guarantee\nIn September 2022\, the following countries had published their National Action Plans on the Child Guarantee: Belgium\, Croatia\, Denmark\, Estonia\, Finland\, France\, Ireland\, Italy\, Luxembourg\, Malta\, The Netherlands\, Poland\, Spain\, Sweden. More here \nDecember 2022: Council Recommendation on Early childhood education and care\nThis was adopted by the Council of the EU as part of the European Care Strategy package launched on 7th September\, and should be adopted by the Council of the EU by end of 2022. More here \nAlliance for investing in Children\nThe EU Alliance for Investing in Children brings together over 20 European networks sharing a commitment to end child poverty and to promote child well-being across Europe.
URL:https://coface-eu.org/event/stepping-up-implementation-of-the-eu-child-guarantee-national-action-plans-in-the-spotlight/
LOCATION:Berlin\, Germany
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