How do children’s home lives influence whether they can thrive and achieve throughout their lives? How do both their material and non-material living conditions affect their later outcomes?
Background
The early years in childhood are crucial to supporting opportunity. This pillar of the Opportunity Mission aims to set every child up for the best start in life, measured against the proportion of 5-year-olds reaching a good level of development in the early years foundation stage.
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Related UKRI funded projects
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Home moves in the early years: the impact on children in UK and US
Common sense holds that moving home is disruptive. British policies on housing offer families with children some protection from instability. Poor families with young children are more reliant on private rental, and are ...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University College London
Why might this be relevant?
The project specifically focuses on how home moves in the early years impact children's well-being and development, comparing the UK and US.
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Harnessing the power of global data to support young children's learning and development: Analyses, dissemination and implementation
The 2017 Lancet Series, Advancing Early Childhood Development: From Science to Scale, estimated that 43% of children under 5 years in LMICs (250m children), were at risk of not reaching their potential because they had s...
Funded by: GCRF
Lead research organisation: University of Oxford
Why might this be relevant?
The project examines the impact of poverty and adversity on young children's learning and development, providing insights into material and non-material living conditions.
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The Millennium Cohort Study Sweep 6 (Age 14) Survey
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
Why might this be relevant?
While the project focuses on various aspects of children's lives, it does not directly address the influence of home lives on children's ability to thrive.