For the most disadvantaged children, high quality early childhood services can make a tremendous difference in reducing disparities in learning outcomes. Currently, high inequality in the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) systems in Europe has a strong impact on the most vulnerable groups: migrant children, Roma children, children with special needs, children living in poverty. This project will pilot new approaches to ECEC in Europe aimed at ensuring that children and families in vulnerable situations have access to high quality services that are better integrated across the different sectors and professions (education, health, welfare, etc.), across services for different age groups and between various governance levels thus addressing needs more holistically putting children and families at the centre. The project will develop an innovative and validated package of tools and approaches (tested in pilots across 4 EU Member states). They will build a common understanding of the importance of putting children and family at the centre in ECEC delivery amongst practitioners from different sectors, local, regional and national governance representatives; and will strengthen the capacity of professional and paraprofessionals to deliver high quality ECEC services creating platforms for cooperation amongst different services and levels of governance. Primary beneficiaries will be the ECEC workforce (education, health, social protection services for children from birth to 7 years old and their families) in areas where vulnerable groups are strongly represented and key stakeholders at the local, regional and national governance level in relation to these services. Secondary beneficiaries are children from 0-7 and their families, particularly those from vulnerable groups. The guidelines and tools will be widely shared through European networks to accelerate the momentum towards integrated ECEC systems which are child and family centred.