Making sense of municipal supervision

It is commonly known that high-quality early childhood education is crucial to children and their overall development and wellbeing (Dietrichson et al., 2020). Therefore, concerns over quality have been increasing in Denmark, because more and more studies state that quality is weaning. A large-scale national survey, for example, recently noted that in spite of large variations the overall quality in Danish early childhood education centers (ECECs) too often is insufficient (Lindeberg et al., 2023). Mindful of these concerns several policies have been installed to improve quality in these ECECs. One of which has mandated all municipalities to develop and install relevant methods and practices for both supervising and ultimately improving the quality provided by ECECs across the country.