Transatlantic Forum on Inclusive Early Years (2013), Quality Early Childhood Services for All: Addressing Disparities in Access for Children from Migrant and Low-Income Families, Ghent

The Transatlantic Forum on Inclusive Early Years (TFIEY), a 3-year project convened by the King Baudouin Foundation in partnership with several European and American foundations, aims to explore policies and programs supporting the early childhood development of children from migrant and low-income families in Europe and the United States. The Forum brings together leading policy-makers, practitioners, philanthropists and academics for each of its twice-annual meetings held in the EU and the US. These stakeholders have the opportunity to exchange the most recent research, strategies, policies, and innovations surrounding these issues, with the aim of leveraging and scaling up existing knowledge and evidence-based research, and making early childhood education and care (ECEC) for children from migrant and low-income families a priority on the political agenda in Europe, the US, and beyond. Each meeting focuses on a specific theme relevant to the challenges facing these populations in ECEC, and is organized by the King Baudouin Foundation and the two operating partners for the initiative, the VBJK Centre for Innovation in the Early Years in Belgium, and the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, DC.

Focus of the publication:

- inclusion;

- accessible ECEC;

- families/children with vulnerable background