1947 1962.

the Government took charge

position of kindergarten gardens,
through Decree 1276 of
Six gardens were created in 1962
• 1947. The national institute is created.
of nutrition, adopts the table of national popular infants,
Colombian foods that were served attached to the Ministry of
as a basis for the characterization National Education, with the
• It is necessary to refer to the of diets and habits which were expected to be attended to
Child Code or Organic Law of food of the population integrally to the children,
Child Defense (Law 83 of 1946) Colombian. project the educational action of
promulgated together with the creation of the • Mid-century. There is an incipient
broadcast to the community through
Colombian Institute of Insurance concern of public policy
of family education work,
Social and the Ministry of Hygiene, for the recognition of children
with the purpose of protecting children and younger girls, although and serve as guides for the
and girls from malnutrition, the with a look of private initiative in the field of
abandonment and mistreatment. exceptionality about them, and without preschool education.
sufficient clarity about the
integrity.
1946 1962
 19751
1963
• Through law 75, was created
the Colombian Institute of
978
family welfare (ICBF), to a was presented a
the level of education which was integrated into the division
important level of
preschool or infant if of minors from the Ministry of
animated discussion
ascribed to the justice and the National Institute
of Health, thereby creating by movements
primary education in
to the first expression of social or
everything related to
political will to protect community like this
the orientation and those who recognized themselves as like developments
supervision, and it was indicated
minors in a situation legal and of
that education irregular”, and to seek the
programs in
preschool era stability and well-being of the
family. health matter and
convenient but no
education, that
mandatory (article 9,
they make relevant
Decree 1710 of 1963.
1968 this period.
 1979 Curricula are created
for all levels, areas and
modalities of the system
• Decree 088 is educational, through the Decree
restructured the 1002. Article 2 of this
The ICBF CAIP program is decree established as
educational system and
it was reorganized the modified and changed its name objective of education
Ministry in the for the Children's Homes, preschool: 'Develop integrally'
framework of the where it was prioritized the and harmoniously its aspects
decentralization and biological, sensomotor, cognitive
family participation. In
of the and socio-affective, and in particular
this same year the
nationalization of communication, autonomy and
Amendment Law 07 of the Law creativity, and with it
education
primary and 27 of 1974, by which the facilitate a preparation
secondary resources, so far suitable for your admission to the
intended solely for the basic education
sons of the women
workers, went to
1976
1976
also to the children of the
most needy families.
1984
 1985 1988
• homes were created
well-being communities
• The ICBF, with the support of development strategy
• It contributed to
Unicef published the document integral human focused on
to dynamize
Work guide in the the comprehensive care of the
perspectives of
protection units and early childhood, which was
attention beyond the
attention to the child, capturing preceded by the strategy of
educational system
pedagogical guidelines child homes (old
formal and in a
for officials, directors, CAIP) and the recognition of
sense of development
board members impulse of new
conceived in a way
administrators and parents less formal modalities more comprehensive.
mothers of families, with the aim to promote the development of
to promote the maximum early childhood in various
regions of the country.
development of the
potentialities of the
children under seven years old in the
attention process and
protection provided in the
CAIP
1986
• The plan was developed
National for the
Survival and the
Child Development
1985 • Statement of
.
(Surviving) for girls and the convention
urban children from zero to about the
six years, of the • Program of Rights of
poorest sectors with family education child, subscribed in
the objective of promoting for development a very time
better conditions of infantile (Pefadi), with active of
health and nutrition for the the objective of summits and
development of children and provide meetings that
girls, reduce the family education they promoted the
mortality and the for the development work in favor
morbidity by causes intellectual and from the first
controlables y atender a emotional of the childhood. It is
the pregnant woman and in girls and boys of he/she approved the code

fertile age. zero to seven years. younger.

1984
1989
1992
 1991 2005
Through Law 12 of 1991
• the "Program of
Colombia adopted the agreements
Support for Formulation
subscribed to the Convention On of First Policy
the Rights of the Child, making "Childhood in Colombia", with
he expresses his willingness to work the objective of defining a
for the girls and boys of the country. • Decree 2247 dictates institutional framework and a
twentieth century until 1991. The country norms regarding the local management system,
presentation of the regional and national that
changed the Constitution, which to
would allow to guarantee the
all lights marked a milestone for the preschool service
for institutions first rights
formulation of the policy of
state and private. childhood, expand
childhood. the Constitution of 1991
covers, improve the
is configured as an event
quality of the program and
cultural because it introduces changes
search for strategies to
important in the view of the
empowering families and
girls and boys, leaving behind their
consideration as minors,
1997 to the community.
miniature objects or adults.
Law 1098 changed the
current paradigm in the 2006
Colombian legislation to
go from the Code of 2007
Minor, in which
they considered the girls and • The Directorate is created • the education sector
children as weak and of Early Childhood approached again
in the MEN assigned first-rate topics
unable, to the Code of the
to the Vice Ministry of childhood, not since the
Childhood and Adolescence Preschool, Basic and perspective of
in which they are recognized It was driven by the media preschool but with
as subjects of rights, education theme a look of
and it is specified and concretized integral of the comprehensive care
planteado en la early childhood thanks to what is arranged
to define its by Law 1098 of
Convention on the
educational policy and 2006.
Children's Rights.
ensure its correctness
implementation.

2006 2007
 • To renew the Plan
Decennial the Ministry
2007 called for a broad 2009
process of
mobilization throughout
the country, through
• The CONPES 109 of forums, tables of • Law 1295 of 2009 arises
2007, the approved work and from the agreements
Public policy conferences, in a fundamentals between the
national first social pact for the civil society and the State
childhood, Colombia right to the about the principles,
for the first education that objectives, goals and
childhood it compromises everyone strategies for the
it arrived as a result the agents education and protection
of the advances responsible for this integral of the girls and the
presented and of the (State, society and children in the first
participation of the family). childhood, and in attention to
health sectors, the rights
education and
well-being.
2006 consecrated in the
Political Constitution and in

2016 the laws.

 In June, the operation of the modalities of initial education
was delivered by the Ministry of National Education to
ICBF.

• Law 1438 of 2011 Late nineties. The country entered into a

transform the idea that process of building public policy for the first
comprehensive care is infancia, producto de trascendentales procesos de
related exclusively social mobilization, regulatory changes of order
with access to the international and national, and learnings derived from the
services, and centers the of experience of the various sectors of the State in the
direct form in the process search for the country's development. Its purpose is the guarantee
de cada niña y cada niño, full rights of girls and boys under six
focused on influencing the years.
human conditions principles of the 20th century. The attention and care of girls and
social and material that to the children were in the care of orphanages and shelters that depended
in turn impact on of religious communities and housed children under seven
direct way in your years in conditions of orphanhood, abandonment, and poverty, to
development possibilities. provide them with food, hygiene, care, protection, and something
of education.

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