Affordable Childcare (HL 117) examines the Government's provision of early years education and childcare for younger children. The Government currently invests

The book explores the core public tasks that the state has traditionally provided but which increasingly are being privatized and subsumed by the private sector

Children are already learning at birth, and they develop and learn at a rapid pace in their early years. This provides a critical foundation for lifelong progre

The strengths and abilities children develop from infancy through adolescence are crucial for their physical, emotional, and cognitive growth, which in turn hel