Many high-welfare countries and regions in the world provide preschool children and their families with 1-3 years of free child care services and preschool education, but these services and preschool education are not all included in the scope of compulsory education.
In order to effectively ensure that school-age children, especially disadvantaged children, enjoy equal opportunities for preschool education, the governments of these countries and regions actively implement the policy of free preschool education and vigorously promote the popularization of preschool education. These countries and regions include developed countries such as Denmark, Finland, South Korea, the United States, Ireland, Portugal, New Zealand, France, Hungary, Italy, Britain, Belgium, Sweden and Australia, as well as developing countries such as Brazil, Mexico, Cuba and Mongolia, and China, Macau and Taiwan Province provinces. These countries and regions have successively established free preschool education systems.
Through laws and policies, major countries and regions in the world have defined the basic principles of implementing free preschool education with government financial input as the main factor. These countries include Denmark, Brazil, France, Finland, South Korea, Mexico and Mongolia. Among them, developed countries, such as Denmark, France and Finland, attach importance to establishing the principle of free education in the education law with government financial input as the main form. France's Education Law and Finland's Basic Education Law both stipulate that the government should give priority to financial input and implement the policy of free preschool education.
References:
1. Research on Education Policy 20 10No. 10 "Free preschool education policies in major countries and regions in the world: characteristics and enlightenment".
2. Other resources