Month: November 2022

The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), in partnership with the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Inclusion and Youth (DCEDIY), recently published a detailed report on the lives of nine-year-olds. The report draws on data from the Growing Up in Ireland (GUI) study. This study compared nine-year-olds in 2007/8 and 2017/18, which was a period

On Wednesday, 9 November 2022, Early Childhood Ireland was pleased to attend the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission’s Care Policy and Practice Conference on Achieving Gender Equality At Work. Focussing on how to achieve gender equality in work, the conference highlighted care and its perception and importance to society. According to IHREC, the fact

In a recent article, published by the journal Arts Education Policy Review,  Alfredo Bautista, Jerry Yeung, Morgan Lisa Mclaren, and Beatriz Ilari aim to raise awareness among educational policymakers, educators, and school leaders about the need to better prepare early childhood educators in music education. Music in early childhood teacher education: raising awareness of a

At the end of October, the OECD released its latest report, Improving Early Equity: From Evidence to Action, which uses findings from the International Early Learning and Child Well-being Study (IELS) to look at how early equity gaps can be closed. The report shows that the learning gap between disadvantaged children and advantaged children is

Two weeks ago, the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY) published the results of a survey of 500 families that was recently undertaken by Ipsos on behalf of the Department. This survey explored the types of early years or school aged care that was accessed by parents, why types of care were