by Svetlana | May 13, 2019 | Blog, ECD News, News
The Bridge ECD Community of Practice has launched the ECD Practitioner Quality Reflection Tool, which assists ECD practitioners in understanding quality in ECD practice and helps them identify their strengths and weaknesses so they are able to develop and improve...
by Svetlana | Aug 11, 2016 | Blog, ECD News
One of the biggest challenges for the thousands of ECD centres dotted around informal communities in South Africa, is registration with the Department of Social Development (DSD). The registration process is complex and lengthy; while the norms and standards that need...
by Svetlana | Sep 25, 2015 | Blog, The Policy Post
Three significant challenges to universal ECD services, particularly are: Insufficient ECD facilities in sufficiently close proximity to the children in question Where facilities do exist, children often are excluded as a result of access barriers such as cost...
by Svetlana | Aug 25, 2015 | Blog, ECD News, The Policy Post
The Department of Social Development (DSD) has issued the results of its national audit of ECD centres, conducted during 2013, which includes centres with conditional registration as well as unregistered centres. The audit serves the purpose of providing information...
by Svetlana | Aug 14, 2015 | Blog, ECD News, The Policy Post
This week’s policy post provides a brief overview and update on the status of a number of recent policy, programme and research initiatives relevant to ECD in South Africa. At the centre is the national ECD policy and programme of action under the leadership of the...
