TY  - BOOK
AU  - Adamson,Peter
AU  - Bennett,John
ED  - UNICEF.
TI  - The child care transition: a league table of early childhood education and care in economically advanced countries 
T2  - Innocenti report cards
SN  - 9788889129708 :
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Geneva
PB  - UNICEF, UK distributor:Stationery Office
KW  - Child care transition: Early childhood education: Economically advanced countries
N1  - UN publications sales no.: E.09.XX.5
N2  - A great change is coming over childhood in the world's richest countries. Today's rising generation is the first in which a majority are spending a large part of early childhood in some form of out-of-home child care. At the same time, neuroscientific research is demonstrating that loving, stable, secure, and stimulating relationships with caregivers in the earliest months and years of life are critical for every aspect of a child's development. Taken together, these two developments confront public and policymakers in countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) with urgent questions. Whether the child care transition will represent an advance or a setback for today's children and tomorrow's world, will depend on the response
UR  - http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/rc8_eng.pdf
ER  -