Early childhood care and education
Assessing Early Learning and Development in South Africa: Introducing the Thrive by Five Index
Executive Summary, The Thrive by Five Index is a project that collects and presents data to measure the quality of early learning and development in South Africa It provides information on the proportion of preschool children who are ´on track´ for their age in key areas of development The dataset is nationally and provincially representative and can be broken down by income quintile and sex Over 5000 children aged 50 to 59 months enrolled in almost 1400 early learning programmes across the country were assessed during the second half of 2021 The Thrive by Five data collection will be repeated every three years to track trends over time The Index aims to support government departments NGOs funders businesses and academia in their collective efforts to ensure that more children have positive early life experiences that contribute to their longterm success
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