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 characteristics of additional needs for children in the early years, specifically focusing on neurodiversity, speech and language, and mental health interventions.
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 cognitive and educational development of disabled children and young people, providing insights to inform policy in relation to disabled children.
Understanding Children's Lives and Outcomes, led by Morag Treanor and Fiona Mitchell, will provide new insights to help better understand and deliver the best possible outcomes for children, utilising existing datasets n...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Edinburgh
Partially relevant as it focuses on educational exclusions, absences, and kinship care, but does not specifically address neurodiversity, speech and language, and mental health interventions.