High-quality early education and care experiences are critical for children’s growth and development, families’ ability to work, and the future health of society. In Greece, with regard to research for children under 3 years of age in early childhood education and care services, the issue of quality has been only marginally researched. The lack of available information on the quality of childcare services has been widely documented. The purpose of this study was to investigate the quality of early childhood education and care services in North Greece. Nonprofit and for-profit centers (one hundred and thirty-one classrooms) for children under 3 participated in this study. For quality assessment, we used the ITERS-R scale (Infant/Toddler Environment Rating Scale-Revised). Results suggested the existence of mediocre average quality.

高质量的早期教育和护理经验对于儿童的成长和发展，家庭的工作能力以及未来的社会健康至关重要。在希腊，关于3岁以下儿童在幼儿教育和护理服务中的研究，对质量问题的研究还很少。广泛记载了缺乏有关托儿服务质量的可用信息。这项研究的目的是调查北希腊的幼儿教育和护理服务的质量。针对3岁以下儿童的非营利性和营利性中心（一百三十一个教室）参加了这项研究。为了进行质量评估，我们使用了ITERS-R量表（修订后的婴幼儿环境等级量表）。结果表明存在中等质量的平均质量。