Paz-Albo Prieto, Jesús2024-02-192024-02-192018Paz-Albo, J. (2018). Enhancing the quality of early childhood education and care: ECEC tutors’ perspectives of family engagement in Spain. Early Child Development and Care, 188(5), 613-623. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004430.2017.14172720300-44301476-8275https://hdl.handle.net/10115/30515Access to high-quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) is important for developmental outcomes and school success. The first years of life are a critical period for learning and the quality of early experiences can have a significant impact later in life. Parenting is one of the primary influences on children’s development and family engagement is crucial in children’s educational success. This study presents a descriptive analysis of ECEC tutors’ perspectives (N = 120) about family engagement across schools in Spain. Data were obtained from the Spanish National Education Council (the Consejo Escolar del Estado) to assess parental school involvement in a total of 63 ECEC centres. Findings suggest that early childhood tutors have a positive perspective of parental involvement and play a key role in supporting active school involvement of parents that enhance the quality of ECEC programmes.engAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 4.0 Internacionalhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/early childhood education and carefamily engagementparent school involvementtutors’ perspectiveseducational qualitySpaininfo:eu-repo/semantics/article10.1080/03004430.2017.1417272info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess