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Every child deserves the best possible start in life, and support to fulfil their potential. A childs experience in the early years has a major impact on their future life chances. A secure safe and happy childhood is important in its own right, and it provides the foundation for children to make the most of their abilities and talents as they grow up.
for the learning, development and care young children should experience when they are attending a setting outside their family home, ensuring that every child makes progress and that no child is left behind.
and anti-discriminatory practice and ensuring that every child is included and not disadvantaged because of ethnicity, culture or religion, home language, family background, learning difficulties or disabilities, gender or ability.
working between parents and professionals, and between all the settings that the child attends.
in the early years sector through a universal set of standards which apply to all settings, ending the distinction between care and learning in the existing frameworks, and providing the basis for the inspection and regulation regime.
learning through learning and development that is planned around the individual needs and interests of the child, and informed by the use of ongoing observational assessment.