UNICEF Annual Report 2023
UNICEF is scaling up successful initiatives, including to support and build the capacities of parents, community health workers, teachers, social workers and local governments. [UNICEF – [...]
Greater maltreatment severity implication for intellectual ability in young children
Findings contribute to the existing literature on maltreatment-related alterations in brain development and provide unprecendented evidence that the severity of maltreatment is remarkably linked [...]
Quality of Early Childcare and Education Predicts High School STEM Achievement
Caregiver sensitivity and stimulation in ECE during the first 5 years might be key levers for it throughout children’s educational careers, especially for children from low-income backgrounds. [...]
Urban Living’s Impact on Early Childhood Development
The study synthesizes findings from 235 articles across 41 countries, identifying seven key areas of environmental exposure in urban settings. [Neuroscience, 22 December 2023.] READ MORE
Parents voices need to shape the next steps on early childhood development
This new independent research aims to better understand the most effective way to provide parents who experience low income across Scotland with the support and information they need to support [...]
China: the association between parental risks and childhood development
Parental risk screening can be used to recognize poor nurturing care in primary health care settings. Targeted interventions are warranted to improve nurturing care for optimal early childhood [...]
Childcare and Parenting Support for Women’s Empowerment – Side event at the UN Commission for Women
Madeleine Wallin and Caroline Hoglund from Haro and FEFAF, together with Perrine Bruvier from IFFD presented the Civil Society Declaration on the 30th Anniversary of the International Year of the [...]
WHO rolls out new holistic way to measure early childhood development
The World Health Organization has launched a new package of measures, the Global Scales for Early Development, to monitor the development of young children at population level up to three years [...]