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Title page 1
Contents 2
Foreword: From vision to action in education reform 3
Start strong or risk falling behind 7
The critical early years 8
Predicting adult outcomes from the early years 9
Bridging the socio-economic gap 11
A roadmap to reducing inequalities by investing in ECEC 13
Strengthening the ECEC workforce 15
The importance of engaging parents in ECEC 17
Migration and other trends 19
The power of play 21
References 23
Figures 8
Figure 1. Students who attended ECEC tend to score higher in maths at age 15 8
Figure 2. Disadvantaged children face significant development gaps by age five 10
Figure 3. Socio-economic inequalities in early childhood education and care participation 12
Figure 4. Roadmap to reducing ECEC inequalities 14
Figure 5. Self-efficacy of early childhood education and care staff, pre-primary education 16
Figure 6. Socio-economic gap in home activities for early literacy and numeracy 18
Figure 7. Linguistic diversity in ECEC settings on the rise 20
Figure 8. Children's favourite types of play 22
