ECiF: First issue in new publication series

The foundation is pleased to announce the first issue in a new series of publications, Early Childhood in Focus, a collaboration with The Open University. This issue deals with attachment theory and research. You can order your free copy or download the pdf.

Early Childhood in Focus will build into a toolkit for child rights advocates, by setting out clear messages emerging from academic research. Each issue is underpinned by the child rights perspective of General Comment 7 of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child: Implementing Child Rights in Early Childhood.

This first issue is entitled Attachment Relationships: Quality of care for young children. It looks at how caregiving, social and economic conditions, and cultural contexts influence the development of attachment relationships, which are crucial for the social, emotional and cognitive development of young children.

Two further issues will follow in 2007, entitled Early Childhood and Primary Education and Developing Positive Identities.

We hope you will enjoy the Early Childhood in Focus series, and that it will serve to inform, encourage, and provide leverage for successful rights-based policy advocacy on behalf of an all too often overlooked constituency: young children.

3 August 2007