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.
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 provide direct solutions to improve parental access and engagement with family services.
Through our parent-practitioner-community (PPC) partnership, consisting of parents with children involved with social work, infant mental health practitioners, researchers, and community stakeholders, we have coproduced ...
Funded by: UKRI
Lead research organisation: University of Glasgow
The project focuses on improving parental access to family services and engagement, as well as connections between parents and professionals through a partnership approach.
National and local organisations produce a wealth of valuable data, which can be used to understand how we can reduce the number of children at risk of poor social, health and educational outcomes. However, at present, t...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: Swansea University
Partially relevant as it focuses on establishing a community catalyst for child-focused researchers and analysts, which indirectly relates to improving parental access and engagement with family services.