‘Won’t somebody think of the children’ is a battle cry calling into question the current positioning of the child and care within international/national childcare policy. This plea is constructed within a framework that recognizes that childcare policies may be guided, developed and implemented in good faith. Nevertheless, there are often (un)intended consequences. The documentary analysis traces the international and Irish quality, affordability and equality arguments underpinning childcare policies and reveals that we may have not only lost sight of the child, but the child is nowhere in sight ([un]intended consequence). While this documentary analysis makes specific reference to the Irish context, the discussion may nonetheless be relevant to the wider international Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) community. The analysis draws on my Irish study (Nolan, 2019), a social feminism exploration of ECEC leadership that revealed the difficulty the stakeholders had in marrying their understanding of children and care within the constantly changing international/national conceptualizations of both. While the depiction of the child and the current state of care in the sector may appear bleak, there is the hope that by drawing attention to this situation, somebody (you and I) will answer the call to battle, and begin a dialogue/debate on the child and care in ECEC.

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幼儿教育和照顾：有人会想到孩子吗？

“有人会不会想到孩子”是一场战斗的呐喊，使人们对儿童和照料在国际/国家育儿政策中的当前地位提出质疑。认罪是在一个框架内进行的，该框架认识到可以真诚地指导，制定和实施育儿政策。但是，经常会出现（意想不到的）后果。纪录片分析追溯了托儿政策所依据的国际和爱尔兰质量，负担能力和平等论据，并揭示了我们不仅可能看不见了孩子，而且看不见了孩子（意料之外的后果）。尽管该文献分析特别提及了爱尔兰的情况，但讨论仍可能与更广泛的国际幼儿教育和护理（ECEC）社区有关。该分析基于我对爱尔兰的研究（诺兰（Nolan，2019）），这是对ECEC领导力的社会女权主义探索，揭示了利益相关者在不断变化的国际/国家概念中将他们对儿童和照料的理解与婚姻相结合的困难。尽管对儿童的描述和该部门目前的照护状况可能看起来很暗淡，但希望通过提请注意这种情况，有人（您和我）将响应战斗的呼吁，并开始对话/辩论。 ECEC中对儿童的照顾。