EARLY EDUCATION RESEARCH FROM AUSTRALIA AND AROUND THE WORLD INSIGHTS FROM MEGAN O’CONNELL, CELA’S RESEARCH AND POLICY ADVISOR
CHANGING THE ODDS FOR VULNERABLE CHILDREN: BUILDING OPPORTUNITIES AND RESILIENCE New OECD evidence shows that we are facing a persistent gap in opportunities between the children at the bottom of the income distribution and the children at the top as children in affluent families receive far more investment in parenting and education than ever before. Individual and environmental factors contribute to childhood vulnerability. The OECD examines policies across a range of areas, each of which can reduce vulnerability:
well-being and providing opportunities through mentoring and organised sport and cultural activities. ⊲⊲ Policies that enhance child protection ⊲⊲ Policies that increase children’s educational success ⊲⊲ Policies that improve children’s health such as designing prenatal care
⊲⊲ Policies to empower vulnerable families such as home visiting
Interestingly they find that mixed cohort ECEC is important for children’s educational success, pointing to the need to integrate intensive and targeted approaches into mainstream settings where possible.
⊲⊲ Policies that boost children’s emotional and social skills by enhancing the roles of schools in emotional and social
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