摘要：Early childhood education and care services are closely linked to other social policy
developments. Therefore the evolution of this sector influences substantially how social policies for the family
are defined. In this article authors describe the current situation and the recent development of the early
childhood education and care sector in Romania. The sector's challenges will be analysed in the context of
baseline scenario regarding the evolution of population from 0 to 6 years. The analysis of the administrative
data will be complemented by the results on the perception of Romanian parents regarding the development of
the child care system collected through a quantitative research (questionnaire based survey) developed by the
authors in October 2017.The results show a poor development of the nurseries system in Romania compared to
that of kindergartens in a context of a country where issues of reconciling work whit family life are quite difficult
to reach for parents with low wages.
关键词：early childhood education and care services; social policies; family; reconciling work whit
family life
