The Bernard van Leer Foundation is an international grantmaking foundation based in The Hague. Through our grantmaking programmes we pioneer innovative ways to improve opportunities for disadvantaged young children. Through our free publications we share what we learn with practitioners and policy-makers and shape the debate about early childhood care and education.

"While the potential for early childhood education and care to change young lives is indisputable, realising this potential through policies and programmes is far from straightforward. Setting up carefully evaluated model programmes for a few hundred children is one thing; going to scale with millions of young children is quite another."

Edited by Iram Siraj-Blatchford and Martin Woodhead, Effective Early Childhood Programmes is part of the popular Early Childhood In Focus series co-published by the Bernard van Leer Foundation and the Open University. Get your free copy and tell us what you think.

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