The evidence is clear: interventions focused on the early years can have an outsized impact on child health and development and family wellbeing. Young children who receive appropriate nutrition, ...

One guideline said that the first three years ... and early learning opportunities, requesting rural clinics, community healthcare centers and county-level maternal and child care institutions ...

The pandemic temporarily devastated American child care. Five years later, a number of effects have rebounded, but experts ...

A charity's chief executive has said more resources should be invested in care for early years children with special needs ...

Michigan should increase what it pays child care facilities to care for low-income families and expand income eligibility, ...

rather than emphasizing the quality of care in the first few years of life. Researchers involved with the Educare study say expanding access to federally-funded Early Head Start programs, which ...

Governments are increasingly seeking advice and support from the World Bank to increase investments in the early years and improve the quality of early childhood services. The World Bank Group’s Early ...

Sir, – On International Women’s Day, it is a timely moment to reflect on the poor pay and conditions that persist within Ireland’s early years and school-age care system. The dedication of ...

A lot of times, all a family needs is some material item or some extra support to be able to not have their children separated, not have to -- the kids don’t even have to go into foster care ...