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benchmark early detection systems across Europe and identify different types of data collected in surveillance systems that can shape a policy response

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Highlights how disruptions to health services can lead to widespread missed opportunities for early detection, strengthening the case for resilient system design and the need for intervention

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Nurturing Care Framework [3.1]

The Nurturing Care Framework for Early Childhood Development

Topic: ECD
Typology: Tools & Frameworks
Language: EN

Relevant actions: Action 2

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see how to embed new initiatives within routine services that families already use, while ensuring alignment with education and social protection systems

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Chapter 5 sets out areas for policy intervention across the health, education and social care sectors.

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Early Childhood Development: sub-report of Children's Realities in Europe: Progress and Gaps. [2.3]

Topic: ECD
Typology: Best practices
Language: EN

Relevant actions: Action 1-3

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identify recommendations for ECD policy based on evidence from across Europe

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-Pages 8-9 set out key recommendations and summary of findings from across European countries

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Family-centred services for early childhood intervention: Highlighting initiatives in Croatia and Serbia [2.2]

Family-centered services for early childhood intervention: Highlighting initiatives in Croatia and Serbia

Topic: Early Intervention
Typology: Best practices
Language: EN

Relevant actions: Action 5

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use examples of how family‑centred ECI principles can be operationalised within public systems

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Pages 3-7 outline best practice examples for using situation analyses to identify evidence, and for improving design and delivery of ECI services

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Ireland's First 5 Annual Implementation Reports (Reporting Progress) [3.1]

Topic: ECD
Typology: Best practices
Language: EN

Relevant actions: Action 1-3

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understand how countries can monitor implementation of a national ECD strategy

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An example of monitoring and evaluation of national ECD policies, with implementation and accountability mechanisms

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Parent Support Workforce Needs Assessment Tool [1.3]

Parenting Support Workforce Needs Assessment Tool

Topic: Parental support
Typology: Tools & Frameworks
Language: EN

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it provides evidence to support workforce planning decisions critical for scaling parenting support services and ensuring quality and consistency.

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It provides evidence for the need for responsive parenting in the early years (p.10), and how disadvantage affects parents ability to provide nurturing care (Annex I)

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Policy brief: The effects of home visiting programmes on key dimensions of the well-being of children and families in high and middle-income countries. Evidence for policy and programme design [2.2]

Topic: Parenting support, ECD
Typology: Studies
Language: EN

Relevant actions: Action 10

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advocacy and policy guidance for promoting home visiting for young children and families as a key strategy to improve health and development in early childhood.

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Advocacy and policy guidance for promoting home visiting for young children and families as a key strategy to improve health and development in early childhood.

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Recommended practices in ECI [1.3]

Topic: Early Intervention
Typology: Tools & Frameworks
Language: EN

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identify goals related to enhancing quality of ECI services and ensuring evidence-based practice.

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- Description and definition of ECI (pgs. 31-32), its relevance to and the science towards children's development (pgs. 33-48) and understanding it as a rights issue (pgs. 48- 50) - Description of ECI's goals and practice (pgs. 50-51) - Case study of Portugal's SNIPI ECI approach including its history and development (pgs. 53- 64), legislation (pg. 57; 63-64), goals (pgs. 58-59), ministerial and local structures (pgs. 59-63) - Recommended practices in ECI overview (pgs. 67-68; 90-91)

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Rating early child development outcome measurement tools for routine health programme use. [2.1]

Topic: ECD
Typology: Tools & Frameworks
Language: EN

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assess the accuracy and feasibility of ECD measurement tools

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-The results include a heat map of accuracy and feasibility ratings for each measurement tool as well as an overview of each tool assessed

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Framework on Early Childhood Development in the WHO European Region [1.1]

Topic: ECD
Typology: Tools & Frameworks
Language: EN

Relevant actions: Action 1-4

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identify key areas for action for evidence-based early childhood development, nutrition and physical health

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Pages 1-11 highlight the background and key areas for action for development, nutrition and physical health, to support the case for ECD policies

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Countdown to 2030: Country profiles on early childhood development [1.1]

Topic: ECD
Typology: Tools & Frameworks
Language: EN

Relevant actions: Action 1,3

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inform policy and make the case for investment in ECD and monitoring

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Data can be used to inform policy, compare across countries and make the case for investment areas in ECD as well as for monitoring where data is currently unavailable

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Iceland’s Prosperity Act [2.2]

Topic: ECD
Typology: Best practices
Language: EN

Relevant actions: Action 2

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understand multisectoral involvement in holistic early childhood development policy

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Can be used as a promising practice example to inform early childhood legislation and policy.

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Methodological Guide for National Situation Analyses on ECI [1.1]

Methodological Guide: Research for national situation analysis on early childhood intervention

Topic: Early Intervention
Typology: Tools & Frameworks
Language: EN

Relevant actions: Action 3

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understand essential aspects of evidence-based ECI services and assess current system capacities, gaps and opportunities to deliver these services.

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It provides an overview of what early childhood intervention services entails (p.21-25), a theory of change to support policymakers in defining objectives and outcomes (p.30) alongside an overview of different research methodologies to support an analysis of the ECD landscape (in relation to objectives and outcomes described in the theory of change) (Chapters 6-8)

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Ireland's First 5 Implementation Plan 2023-2025 [3.1]

Topic: ECD
Typology: Best practices
Language: EN

Relevant actions: Action 1-3

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see a practical example of translating a national ECD strategy into a time-bound implementation plan with defined responsibilities and measurable outputs.

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An example of how to implement multisectoral ECD policies; governance and coordination arrangements

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Parent Support Workforce Needs Assessment Tool [2.1]

Topic: Parental support
Typology: Tools & Frameworks
Language: EN

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undertake a needs assessment for parenting support services

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A helpful tool to undertake a workforce needs assessment for parent support services. Seven areas covered: 1) workforce expectations, 2) curricula, materials and resources, 3) training, supervision and career development, 4) workforce conditions and wellbeing, 5) program design, 6) enabling environment and 7) monitoring and quality assurance. Tool application on page 11. It provides an overview of entry points to delivering a parenting support service at different levels and what this entails (Universal, Targeted, and Intensive) (p.18 - 37)

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Universal-progressive home visiting model [2.1]

Topic: Parenting support, ECD
Typology: Tools & Frameworks
Language: EN

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awaiting publication

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Informs policy design for a UPHV model

Recommended Practices in Early Childhood Intervention [2.2]

Topic: Early Intervention
Typology: Tools & Frameworks
Language: EN

Relevant actions: Action 5-6

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see a detailed case study of Portugal’s ECI approach, including development and legislative structures

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- Case study of Portugal's SNIPI ECI approach including its history and development (pgs. 53- 64), legislation (pg. 57; 63-64), goals (pgs. 58-59), ministerial and local structures (pgs. 59-63)

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Methodological Guide for National Situation Analyses on ECI [2.1]

Topic: Early Intervention
Typology: Tools & Frameworks
Language: EN

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find evidence‑based insights into the strengths and weaknesses of ECI systems to inform policy decisions

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WHO European Framework on Early Childhood Development [1.3]

Topic: ECD
Typology: Tools & Frameworks
Language: EN

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structure an assessment of whether existing policies address all dimensions of early childhood development, to inform objectives

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The framework sets out key action points across areas for policy intervention, including monitoring and surveillance.

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WHO European Framework on Early Childhood Development [2.1]

Topic: ECD
Typology: Tools & Frameworks
Language: EN

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align national ECD strategies across sectors and identify priority actions

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The framework highlights the need to review existing harmful practices (page 15) as well as sectors to consider for policy review

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Spain’s Quality Framework for Early Childhood Intervention Services [2.3]

Topic: Early intervention
Typology: Tools & Frameworks
Language: EN

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provides a practical example of how national quality standards, governance, funding, and evaluation can improve access to equitable, integrated early childhood intervention services and reduce waiting times

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To understand how to implement the European Child Guarantee through a comprehensive policy framework

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Building a Sustainable and Inclusive Early Childhood Intervention System – Policy Brief [1.3]

Topic: Early Intervention
Typology: Tools & Frameworks
Language: EN

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it provides a clear, evidence‑based justification for public investment in ECI and supports policymakers in framing early intervention as a system‑level responsibility rather than a niche or discretionary service.

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It supports policymakers to select policy priorities by providing a justification of the importance of ECI (p.4) and what a family-centred ECI service requires (p.5-6)

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Shaping the Future: Early Years Action Plan (Government of Ireland) [3.1]

Topic: ECD
Typology: Best practices
Language: EN

Relevant actions: Action 1-3

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see how governments can use action plans to drive reform and improvement of early years services

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An example of a practical action plan to address access and affordability of ECEC services

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UNICEF Parenting Framework [2.1]

Parenting Support Framework for the Early Years

Topic: Parental support
Typology: Best practices
Language: EN

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use a conceptual framework that provides a unified vision for parenting support from pregnancy to age 8, to strengthen parenting support across sectors

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Framework for multi-sectoral support for parents

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Parent Support Workforce Needs Assessment Tool [2.2]

Topic: Parental support
Typology: Tools & Frameworks
Language: EN

Relevant actions: Action 7-8

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see examples of universal and targeted parenting support implementation

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It provides examples of best practices (e.g., parenting intervention supports to refugees in Poland p.34), layered family-centred parenting services in Portugal, p.38), universal multisectoral parenting support in Serbia, p.29)

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Developmental difficulties in early childhood: prevention, early identification, assessment and intervention in low-and middle-income countries: a review [2.1]

Topic: ECD
Typology: Tools & Frameworks
Language: EN

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understand available evidence regarding prevention, identification and intervention for developmental difficulties

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Understand available evidence regarding prevention, identification and intervention for developmental difficulties

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Recommended practices in ECI [2.3]

Topic: Early Intervention
Typology: Tools & Frameworks
Language: EN

Relevant actions: Action 2

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identify integrated, multidisciplinary approaches to ECI

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Integrated, intersectoral and multidisciplinary ECI approaches and cooperation (pgs. 219-239) with practical exercises to support the approach (pgs. 238-239)

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Building a Sustainable and Inclusive Early Childhood Intervention System – Policy Brief [2.1]

Topic: Early Intervention
Typology: Tools & Frameworks
Language: EN

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identify policy priorities based on the requirements for a family-centred ECI service

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It supports policymakers to select policy priorities by providing a justification of the importance of ECI (p.4) and what a family-centred ECI service requires (p.5-6)

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Framework on Early Childhood Development in the WHO European Region [3.2]

Topic: ECD
Typology: Tools & Frameworks
Language: EN

Relevant actions: Action 2

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identify key actions for developmental monitoring and assessment, including the use of appropriate monitoring tools

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Key actions for developmental monitoring and assessment are laid out (pages 11-13), including the use of appropriate developmental monitoring tools.

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