Impact of Early Childhood Education Service Delivery on Working Class Parents

Abstract

This study investigated the effect of early childhood education services on working-class parents in Lagos Mainland Local Government Area, Lagos State. The study was guided by four specific objectives which were to examine the impact of early childhood education service delivery on parental job preference, receptivity to in-house caregivers, receptivity to after-school service, and parental job performance in Lagos Mainland Local Government Area, Lagos State. The descriptive research design was adopted. The population for this study was all working-class parents with pre-schoolers but only 150 of them were sampled in the study using a simple random sampling technique. A researcher-designed questionnaire which had a reliability coefficient of .802 was used to collect the data needed for the study. The data collected were analysed using the descriptive statistics of frequency count, and percentage to present the respondent bio-data while the mean was used to answer the research questions. The study revealed that early childhood education service delivery has a positive impact on parental job preference and job performance while the early childhood education service delivery has a negative effect on parental receptivity towards in-house caregivers and after-school service in Lagos Mainland Local Government Area, Lagos State. Hence, it was concluded that early childhood education services have a positive effect on working-class parents in Lagos Mainland Local Government Area, Lagos State. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended among many others that ECCE providers should improve their staff requirement policy and ensure proper supervision to better enhance their compliance with the national minimum standard on ECCE so as to better satisfy the parents.