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1. We have included references to some earlier work where this has had a clear influence on current practice or expectations.
2. The Northern Ireland Curricular Guidance for Pre-School Education ( DENI, 1997) is not referred to directly in the text but is included in Appendix 1.
3. It should be noted that quality ratings of provision in the USA (where regulation differs between states) are much more varied than quality ratings of settings in the UK and the NICHD have concluded that much provision in the USA is not of high quality ( NICHD, 2000).
4. Quality was defined by the Early Childhood Environmental Rating Scale ( Harms, Clifford and Cryer, 1998) and extension scales ( Sylva et al, 2003).
5. The guidance on care for the youngest children in Scotland, Birth to three supporting our youngest children (Learning and Teaching Scotland, 2005), is a good example of this kind of approach. In England Birth to Three Matters (David et al , 2002) offers guidance for the same age group.
6. In order to minimise the length of entries in this appendix we have adopted the convention which restricts naming each author to papers where there are up to three contributors. Where there are four or more authors we have named the lead author only, followed by et al.

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