Policy translation for early childhood education and care: the Growing Up in New Zealand approach
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Background The past two decades have seen increasing recognition about the importance and potential of large longitudinal cohort studies, not only for informing our understanding of child development and evidence-based interventions, but also for informing the development and evaluation of government policy and programmes for children and families. In New Zealand, our diverse contemporary longitudinal birth cohort was developed with the explicit intent to provide evidence to inform the policy approach (Morton et al. 2013; Morton, Ramke et al. 2015). This paper will focus on the approach to policy Abstract
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