The research project aimed to identify and document the ways in which home-based childcare co-ordinators support educators caring for children in their own homes to notice, recognise, and respond to children’s learning.

The research objectives were to:
• investigate co-ordinators’ practice
• document educators’ understanding of children’s learning
• discover how one impacts upon the other.

There were three research questions:
1. What are co-ordinators doing to support educators to notice, recognise, and respond to children’s learning?
2. What changes are evident in educators’ practice as a result of what co-ordinators do?
3. What factors seem to be important in this process?