The earlier we invest in children’s development, the better. In South Africa, this means improving both access to and quality of learning programmes: about a third of the country’s 3–5-year-olds do not attend any form of an early learning programme (ELP) and of the children who are enrolled, about 60% are not developmentally on track.
This learning brief examines how the process of developing an early learning programme quality assurance and support system unfolded, the progress achieved and the challenges ahead. Programme quality has two dimensions. The first, structural quality, relates to the physical setting in which children learn. The second, process quality, refers to how a programme creates opportunities for children to interact with the world around them.
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