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Further Resources

This page provides links to some other relevant data sources, and suggests some further reading on the importance of early childhood.

Other data sources

Here are links to some other Scottish administrative data sources and dashboards, which you may find useful:

• ELC insights dashboard from the Improvement Service: this dashboard brings together key data to support local authorities in the planning and delivery of funded early learning and childcare.
• Scottish Public Health Observatory profiles: these present a range of indicators to give an overview of health and its wider determinants at a local level.
• Public Health Scotland discovery tool: an online management information system that provides approved users with access to a range of comparative healthcare information.
• Public Health Scotland early child development statistics: a dashboard providing health board and local authority level data on the most recently available early child health reviews.

Further reading

Here are some additional links to information on the importance of early childhood and what babies need most in their earliest years:

• An explainer from Nesta on ‘Why the early years matter’
• NSPCC report on early years policy development in Scotland since devolution
• Resources from Center for the Developing Child, Harvard University exploring key concepts relating to early childhood
• Scottish Government Voice of the Infant: best practice guidelines and infant pledge
• Parent Infant Foundation: 1001 days resources
• Royal Foundation explainer series
• Resource from Scotland’s national early language and communication project
• Nurturing care framework for early childhood development

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