Item 10-12: Progress Report Miho Taguma Project leader on ECEC 7 th Meeting of the OECD Network on Early Childhood Education and Care, Paris, June 2010

Brief background information for new participants Revised timeline ECEC Portal – Item 10 Quality Project – Item 11 Draft questionnaire for the pilot survey – Item 12 Today’s Focus

Brief Background Info for New Participants ECEC Portal. The network suggested an exercise to update country profiles (Annex in Starting Strong II); It was agreed that: –the output will be presented in a comparative form by theme rather than by country; –it will be presented in an online form; –it will draw on existing work (DELSA’s Family Database, SSI & II). It will first be used as an internal working tool among the network members; it will then be made publicly available with the country validation on the information/data.

Quality Project. The activity was launched to answer “How can countries put in place policies to encourage quality in ECEC?”. Focus is “How” not “What”. Network is mandated by the Education Policy Committee to guide the quality project as a GNE. The expected outputs include: –Policy Tool Box for all countries. –Country-specific policy profiles and policy forums for countries with voluntary contributions.

Overall Process Output for all members (Policy Tool Box) Outputs for countries with VCs III: Country Policy Profiles and Policy forums III: Country Policy Profiles and Policy forums II: Developing Policy Tool Box II: Developing Policy Tool Box Phase I: Building Solid Knowledge Base Phase I: Building Solid Knowledge Base IV: Round Table Discussion IV: Round Table Discussion Mapping definitions of “quality” in ECEC and “quality indicators” Stock-taking of existing research and reviewing literatures Refining analytical framework Assessing country needs, defining the scope of country specific outputs (policy profiles and policy forums) Collecting good strategies and implementation challenges for the quality project Collecting info for the ECEC Portal Policy Forum(s) Delivering summary report Preparatory visits (for policy forums) and refining the scope Policy Tool Box Preparing Country Policy Profile Revised Timeline

Action points for Q For all countries: Pilot survey (mid-July to mid-Oct) Survey (mid-Nov to mid-Feb) For countries participating in country policy profiles Respond to part of Needs Assessment Survey Take part in the informal meeting For countries participating in policy forums Respond to all of Needs Assessment Survey Take part in the informal meeting Preparatory country visit from the Secretariat