Our goal is for the early years sector to provide the foundations for children to have happy, healthy and successful lives, and to enable parents to work. The sector has some challenges in common with our other sectors but it faces a different local and systemic context. We are interested in evidence that will help us enable a healthy and sustainable early years market which maximises the valuable outcomes of the sector.
If you would like to discuss previous, ongoing or potential research into any of the areas in this document, please contact research.engagement@education.gov.uk.
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
In recent years, parents and parenting have featured prominently in policy discourse in the UK and elsewhere. The increasingly prevalent view that social and educational policy must pay specific attention to the role and...
Funded by: AHRC
Lead research organisation: University College London
Partially relevant as it discusses changing discourses of the parent-child relationship but does not directly address the effectiveness of parenting programmes.
EasyPeasy requests £46,867 in matched funding (£23k already secured) to support a 3-month content task-force to become the go-to early years app for parents and teachers during the COVID-19 crisis, and beyond...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: CHARACTER COUNTS LTD
Partially relevant as it focuses on supporting families with young children through a child development platform, but does not specifically address the effectiveness of parenting programmes.
The UK government spends billions of pounds a year to ensure that all 3 and 4 year olds have access to childcare and early education for 15 hours a week, 38 weeks a year. There is ongoing debate about whether (and by how...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Essex
Fully relevant as it specifically investigates the effect of free childcare on maternal labour supply and child development, addressing the question directly.