Time to Say Farewell to ‘Early Childhood’?

The time may have come for adopting a broader perspective than early childhood, looking across childhood, or even sometimes across the life course: early childhood services should be seen in relation to other provisions for children and young people, including compulsory school. One consequence might be to find a new and shared way of thinking about these services, for example, as ‘children's spaces’. To adopt a wider perspective entails risks for early childhood, but there are, equally, risks from not changing.