Pre-School Development - Report of a Study Group Set up by the Department of Social Welfare, Ministry of Education and Social Welfare

The provision of an integrated service covering education, health, nutrition and welfare to the pre-school child is a very important programme in creating equality of educational opportunity. Such services which now cover about one million children should be rapidly expanded to cover two million children by the end of the Fourth Plan and five million children or 10 per cent of the age-group three to five by 1981.