This report, Starting Strong VI: Supporting meaningful interactions in early childhood education and care, represents the culmination of the Quality beyond Regulations policy review undertaken between 2018 and 2021.The development of this report and of the policy review was guided by OECD Early Childhood Education and Care Network and has benefited from contributions of its members throughout the project. Annex D of this report lists the various individuals and institutions that contributed to the preparation of the report.
The development of this report was guided by Andreas Schleicher and Yuri Belfali and led by Stéphanie Jamet. Elizabeth Shuey wrote Chapter 1, Victoria Liberatore was the lead author of Chapter 2, and Chapter 3 was prepared by Joana Cadima, Vera Coelho, Carolina Guedes, and Gil Nata (external consultants), and by Stéphanie Jamet and Thomas Radinger. Authors of the report also prepared the country notes with contributions from Alix Got. Andrea Konstantinidi supported report preparation, production, project co-ordination and communications with contributions from Mernie Graziotin in the first phase of the project. The report builds on preparatory work led by Clara Barata, Arno Engel, Victoria Liberatore, Elizabeth Shuey and Miho Taguma. Cassandra Davis, Henri Pearson, and Taline Shahinian also provided support for report production and communications. Julie Harris edited the report.
Statistical analyses and outputs were co-ordinated by Elisa Duarte and Thomas Radinger with contribution from Vanessa Denis and Victoria Liberatore. Thomas Radinger led the development of the accompanying online platform, Starting Strong: Mapping quality in early childhood education and care with Andrea Konstantinidi. Bruno Pérez, and Sébastien Conejo and Ismaël Guerrib (external consultants) developed the online platform. Simon Normandeau contributed to the development of the policy questionnaire.