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:
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) target the unfinished agenda for child survival with 5.3 million deaths of children before their fifth birthday. Importantly, the SDGs also reflect families' and national governme...
Funded by: MRC
Lead research organisation: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Addresses the specific needs of children with neurodevelopmental delays and disabilities in early education.
This project brings together academics from the Institute of Education (IOE) researchers from the National Children's Bureau (NCB) and campaigners and policy-oriented practitioners from NCB's Council for Disabled Childre...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: London School of Economics and Political Science
Focuses on understanding cognitive and educational development of disabled children to inform policy.
The Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) is a unique, multidisciplinary research resource. Following the lives of over 19,000 children born across the UK around the turn of the millennium, it builds on the UK's rich, and unequa...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University College London
The project focuses on the development and education of children at age 14, which is relevant to understanding early years outcomes.