Ever wondered what the Early Childhood Forum does? Judith Napier looks at the activities of the ECF as it aims to integrate and strengthen the childcare sector
As a Nursery World reader you, or your setting, probably belong to an early years organisation. You can be pretty sure that the organisation belongs to the Early Childhood Forum (ECF). But what does it do?
Origins
The ECF started in 1993 as the Early Childhood Education Forum (ECEF), the vision of Gillian Pugh, then director of the Early Childhood Unit at the National Children's Bureau (NCB). Gillian realised that if childcare, education and health were to be integrated, organisations that represented its facets needed to talk.
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