Early Childhood Education and day-care have often been considered two different kinds of activities requiring different organisational arrangements. In Sweden, as in most of the Scandinavian countries, there is a tradition of integrating the two. This has been called the Educare model. The Swedish parliament has recently passed a proposition for a national curriculum for the Early Childhood Education in the preschools. Educare is practised in day-carecentres, day nurseries, preschools for children under school age (Kindergarten), partly at primary school level and in after school supervised activities (leisure centres).