Intesys. Together supporting vulnerable children through integrated early childhood services. Towards Integrated Early Childhood Systems – Building the foundations. Toolkit, Erasmus+ (2019)

INTESYS is a three-year (2015-18) Forward Looking Cooperation Project, co-funded by the European Commission's Erasmus+ Programme. The Project focuses on new approaches to European ECEC systems with the goal of ensuring that children and families in vulnerable situations have access to high quality ECEC, provided by services that are better integrated across various sectors (education, health, welfare, etc.), professions, age groups, and governance levels.

There is a growing evidence about the importance of the early years, and of the benefits that quality and equitable early childhood services imply for an individual’s life, with particular reference to children and families in vulnerable situations. The complexity of challenges faced today by societies has a dramatic impact on families and consequently on young children: increasing poverty, weakening welfare systems, increasing inequalities, job insecurity, increased mobility and migration, and rapid change in economic and political landscapes. Multifaceted problems require multiple, as well as joint and well-coordinated interventions, starting from high quality integrated ECEC services, so as to bring about qualitative and quantitative changes.

Focus of the publication:

- inclusive ECEC;

- integrated work;

- families with vulnerable background