in only children under the age of five were enrolled in comprehensive ecec in colombia by the number reached by the strategy had risen to the goal is to increase enrolment in ecec to million for children under years old the government subsequently revised to million children aged up to five years and to ensure that of children in extreme poverty participate in ecec by these changes include the creation of the undersecretariat of early childhood education and the expansion of access to early childhood education through the creation of new early childhood education centres that fulfil new standards of quality