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8 Breakout Group Reports and Closing Remarks
8 Breakout Group Reports and Closing Remarks
Pages 71-76
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The first is the fragmentation of public responsibility for these services. The second is inadequate public subsidies for privately provided services; public services are not considered a major source of financing for early childhood development.
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Breakout group participants also discussed how to respond to policy makers who ask why additional funding for early childhood development is needed when a portion of public funding is already going to poverty reduction. Additional funding is necessary if young children are viewed as a specific segment of the poor population, but participants also discussed the proper allocation of existing funds.
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Governments are aware of their responsibilities and obligations to the Convention on the Rights of Children, but not as much to the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities, stated breakout participants. This convention advances the level of discourse surrounding people with disabilities, viewing children as "subjects of human rights rather than burdens to be fixed." However, as several breakout participants observed, children with disabilities are often neglected and are overrepresented among the poorest sections of society, which makes this group a particular concern in considerations of early childhood development.
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EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT SCALES As presented by Nirmala Rao of the University of Hong Kong, the Southeast Asia and Pacific region has been working on a set of early childhood development scales to monitor child development in the context of poor school readiness and learning outcomes, track the development of vulnerable and at-risk children, and analyze the effect of early childhood policies and programs on children. In deliberations involving eight countries, more than 1,700 different items were boiled down to 85 that have been in a pilot phase of testing, she said.
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The multiple roles of women play an important role in early childhood development for many reasons, not just because of their vulnerability or the income status of their country. Lee underlined the concept of universal equity and described how targeting populations with certain risk factors, including populations with disabilities, immigrant, and nonmainstream families, is a separate approach from the concept of universal health coverage.
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At the same time, exciting new science on how early childhood is linked to lifelong positive outcomes can channel this growing consensus into more effective programs and policies. "It's time to raise the bar for global child well-being," Masten said.
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