In 2008 the Lincolnshire Birth to Five service launched an innovative project to improve ICT provision in 320 early years settings by providing high-quality equipment for staff and children in each setting with a value of over £1,500.
The initiative for the programme can be summarised by Whitbread (1996): 'Children learn by a process of actively constructing their own understandings. All the evidence suggests that a learning environment which helps children to do this will, not surprisingly, be one which challenges them intellectually and stimulates them to be mentally active.'
It was recognised by Stephanie Douglas, head of the Birth to Five Service in Lincolnshire, that it was not only the children in early years settings who would benefit from further opportunities to use ICT. The Birth to Five Service believed it equally beneficial to consider ICT provision for practitioners to aid administration and enable them to access up-to-date information.
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