WG operating documents
WG deliverables
Activity reports
- Activity report 2022-2023 (available in 24 languages)
Staff shortages
- Staff shortages in the ECEC sector - Policy brief (2023) (available in 24 languages)
ECEC leadership
- Strengthening ECEC leadership for quality development and staff retention - Peer Learning Activity (2024, Germany) - Summary
- How can ECEC leaders best recruit and manage diverse teams and work with diverse families? - Peer Learning Activity (2024, Luxembourg) - Summary
- Leadership in ECEC: an overview of models and practices in Europe - Report (2024)
Monitoring and evaluating quality in early childhood education and care
- Background note (2022)
- Purposes, Values and Principles (2022)
- Improving the governance of monitoring and evaluation of quality in ECEC (2023)
- Involving children, parents, staff and stakeholders in monitoring and evaluation of quality in ECEC (2023)
- Making ECEC more inclusive through monitoring and evaluation of quality (2023)
- ECEC - How to collect data and information to achieve a balance between monitoring of structural quality and evaluating process quality? (Peer Learning Activity Brussels, 2022)
- ECEC - How to involve stakeholders in monitoring and evaluation processes to increase inclusiveness of ECEC systems? (Peer Learning Activity Lithuania, 2023)
Other useful resources and policy documents
- Council Recommendation on High-Quality Early Childhood Education and Care systems (2019) (available in 24 languages)
- EU strategy on the rights of the child (2021)
- EU strategy on the rights of the child_annex1 (2021)
- EU strategy on the rights of the child_annex2 (2021)
- EU strategy on the rights of the child_factsheet (2021)
- EU strategy on the rights of the child_illustrated (2021)
- EU Plan for Children's Rights_long (2021)
- EU Plan for Children's Rights_short (2021)
- EU Plan for Children's Rights_easy read (2021)
- Council Recommendation establishing a European Child Guarantee (2021) (available in 24 languages)
- European Child Guarantee_factsheet (2021)