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Early childhood education as well as its leadership have been experiencing significant changes recently. One major change has been the change of the Basics of the Early Childhood Education Plan becoming mandatory. According to the researchers, there is now a need for particularly effective pedagogical leadership in order to bring the new demands on pedagogy stated in the streering document into the everyday life of early childhood education. In this study it is researched how pedagogical leadership is reflected in nationwide and local early childhood education plans. The study was qualitative and the used research method a theory-driven content analysis. The research data consists of the Basics of the Early Childhood Education Plan (2016) as well as ten municipal level early childhood education plans, ie a total of 11 early childhood education plans. The research questions were: 1. How does pedagogical leadership appear in the Basics of Early Childhood Education Plan (2016)? 2. How does pedagogical leadership appear in municipal early childhood education plans? The theoretical framework of the research consists of the five structural factors of the pedagogical leadership and pedagogical leadership methods. The results showed that the national steering document contains only limited talk of leadership and is in many places general in nature. The municipal early childhood education plans had a lot of repetition of the leadership talk visible in the national early childhood education plan. However, part of these plans (n = 5) opened the same topic also with their own words. The structural factors and methods of pedagogical leadership were manifested in many ways in both types of data. The results support previous views that pedagogical leadership is a multi-dimensional phenomenon. In addition, it can be concluded that in some municipatilities leaders are offered more support for the implementation of their pedagogical leadership in the form of early childhood education plans than in others.