Europe
Daycare Trust national conference 2009: Future childcare investment, who cares who pays
Useful websites
Skolverket. Swedish National Agency for Education
Skolverket is the central administrative authority for the Swedish public school system including the preschool and school-age child care systems. Skolverket ensures that national targets for child care and the school system are achieved through development, research and evaluation. Skolverket's extensive English language website provides a wealth of information on the Swedish ECEC system.
Reports from the OECD Thematic Review of ECEC
Early childhood education and care country profiles - Sweden
Source: OECD, 2006
Profile from Starting Strong II in pdf (7 pp.)
Curricula and pedagogies in early childhood education and care
Source: OECD, 2004
Full report in pdf (34pp.)
Early childhood education and care in Sweden
by Barbara Martin Korpi
Source: OECD, 2000
Conference paper in pdf (9pp.)