This document discusses early childhood care and development in the Philippines. It outlines the constitutional and international obligations to protect children's rights and provide early education. The objectives for early childhood care and development include designating a single agency responsible, including one more year of preschool, accrediting private programs, and integrating health and nutrition services into early education programs. The document also discusses the legal frameworks governing early childhood development and the establishment of a national system. It considers whether preschool should be part of the formal school system or operated non-formally, and whether intervention should be through institutionalization or integration.

1. ECCDEARLY CHILDHOOD Care and development

2. Early Childhood Care and
Development
1987 Philippine Constitution
UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child
Education for All (EFA) Agenda
ARTICLE XV Section 2
“The right of children to assistance,
including proper care and nutrition,
and special protection from all forms
of neglect, abuse, cruelty, exploitation
and other conditions prejudicial to
their development.”

3. EFA Initial Planning Targets for Early Childhood Care and Development (1990-1992 and Year 2000)

4. ECCD
objectives
Designating a single agency to be
responsible for early childhood
development
Including another year of
preparatory schooling for six-
year olds as part of the formal
school system
Accrediting private school
programs and institutions
Designing focused and differentiated
approaches for special categories of
children
Integrating health, nutrition, and
other allied services in the
programs and services
Adapting curriculum,
materials and approaches to
the Filipino child’s socio-
cultural milieu
Managing early childhood development
programs and services with emphasis
on community-based activities
Exploring and using various
approaches to parent education

6. ECCD
Act of 2000

7. Legal Framework for Governance of Early
Childhood Care and Development
The Child and
Youth
Welfare Code
of 1974
The Local
Government
Code of 1991

8. Establishment of the National
System for ECCD

9. ECCD is
shared
responsibility.

10. Access
to
Preschool Education

11. What kind of
intervention is
needed?
Should preschool be
made part of the
formal school system
or should it continue
to be operated on a
non-formal basis? Should the
intervention be
done through
institutionalizatio
n or integration?

12. Integration
The inclusion of
preschool
education in the
formal school
structure.
Institutionalization
The formal
recognition of
ECCD as part of
non-formal
education

13. EDCOM
Institutionali
zation
Pedagogical Economic

14. Private
Preschool
Education

15. Private
Preschool

16. Preschool
Elementary
Secondary
(Tertiary)

17. Level Age Requirement
Nursery classes 3-4 years old
Kindergarten Classes 4-5 years old
Preschools 5-6 years old
Ministry of Education (MEC) Order No. 24, s. 1979
Age Requirements for Admission

18. Independent Private Preschools
To prepare
young
children to
formal
schooling
To provide
surrogate
parenting to
children of
working
parents
To promote
specific
philosophy of
education

20. Thank You
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