It's easy to get bogged down in domestic concerns and to ignore the wider global picture of children's services. So two members of the Nursery World team were privileged to attend the World Forum on Early Care and Education last week in Belfast (see News, page 6).
There, the scale of the challenges and the pace of change in children's services were apparent from the talks by representatives of many different countries.
Here in the post-industrial world, we may feel that money is in short supply and that the mental well-being of our children is a major concern. But in the emerging world, the lack of money and the effects of conflict and environmental catastrophe present enormous problems.
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