1. Emphasises that the foundations for a child's future educational path and well-being are laid in the early years of childhood and can help to instil the idea of lifelong learning, and that early childhood is a time when receptiveness, language learning and the ability to form social contacts – attributes that will be essential in tomorrow's society – should be encouraged so as to facilitate the child's integration into both school and society from an early age, thus combating ESL; reiterates the call contained in its resolution on early years learning in the EU for the development of a European framework for early childhood education ...[+++] and care services from as early an age as possible, particularly through the development of free public crèche and day-care facilities;

H. whereas there is a direct link between the well-being of parents and children and the provision, in terms of both quantity and quality, of early years services,

On this occasion, of course, we have done no more than assemble circumstantial evidence rather than watertight proof, quite simply because no head of a secret service is going to come out and say, ‘Yes, of course, that’s how we did it.

During part of my career as the director of child welfare in Manitoba I had the privilege of being part of a group of people who wrote the 1985 child and family services act in Manitoba.

A comprehensive strategy is being developed with the Assembly of First Nations and First Nations child and family services agency directors to help ensure that more First Nations children and parents get the help they need to prevent the types of crises that lead to intervention and family breakdown.

Aboriginal child and family services agency directors collaborate and work with their provincial and federal counterparts.