Understanding Early Years Policy

This new fourth edition takes the reader through the complex network of policy development with activities which make a potentially dry subject matter come alive.

Previously known as Baldock: Understanding Early Years Policy is in its Fourth Edition. This best-selling textbook continues to provide fully updated coverage of all the latest developments in early years policy such as the revised Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), SEND Code of Practice 0-25 years and the Children and Families Act 2014.

Exploring how policy is made, implemented, analysed and developed over time this book presents a complete overview of early years policy and an evaluation of its ongoing impact on practice.

This Fourth Edition has been significantly updated to include:

• Full coverage of the 2010-2015 UK Coalition Government.
• A comprehensive timeline of Early Years policy
• Guidance on how to research policy for yourself
• More international case studies, now including the US and Scandinavia.
• New material on how to manage policy changes as a practitioner
• An expandedfocus of  the devolved countries within the UK

This text is an essential read for early years students at all levels, and early years practitioners.

• | Author: Damien Fitzgerald, Janet Kay
• | Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
• | Publication Date: Mar 24, 2016
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781412961905
• | ISBN-10: 1412961904