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Every child achieving and thriving: Attainment
• How can we support all children by removing barriers to opportunity, balancing high standards for all with support for those who need it most, including the most disadvantaged children?
Department for Education, 2025
support services
learning barriers
standards
disadvantages
social mobility
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Every child achieving and thriving: Attainment
What works to raise attainment, taking account of different starting points and different contexts experienced by children, including the most disadvantaged?
Department for Education, 2025
attainment
disadvantaged groups
secondary education
tertiary education
pedagogy
teaching
special educational needs and disabilities
learning barriers
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Best start in life - access and participate in good quality learning
How can we better support school/setting leaders to drive improvements in early years education?
Department for Education, 2025
childcare
leadership
systems thinking
performance management
early childhood education
nursery
pre-school
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Best start in life - access and participate in good quality learning
What are the most effective system-level levers for replicating high-quality and long-lasting early years education across diverse settings (including schools, childminders, and communities)? How much do these levers act universally, and how much do they need adapting and/or targeting to support different groups of children (e.g. SEND, FSM) to achieve a Good Level of Development (GLD)?
Department for Education, 2025
systems thinking
policy levers
early childhood education
nursery
pre-school
special educational needs and disabilities
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Best start in life - access and participate in good quality learning
What are the most effective ways to provide robust and effective early education, to ensure sufficiency of provision with a motivated and good quality workforce?
Department for Education, 2025
early education
workforce skills
workforce development
early years
nursery
pre-school
childminders
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Best start in life - access and participate in good quality learning
What is the optimal amount and type of early education in formal settings? How does this vary for different groups of children?
Department for Education, 2025
child development
early education
family support
early years
nursery
pre-school
childminders
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Best start in life - access and participate in good quality learning
How can parental engagement in their children's early education best be enhanced, especially for those parents in disadvantaged households, and how does this vary for mothers and fathers?
Department for Education, 2025
early education
family support
parental engagement
employers
pre-school
early years
wrap-around care
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Best start in life - access and participate in good quality learning
What can we do to reduce barriers to take-up of childcare and to work, particularly for parents from disadvantaged communities?
Department for Education, 2025
disadvantaged communities
employment support
wrap-around care
nursery
early years
parental engagement
accessibility
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Best start in life - access and participate in good quality learning
How do we ensure that all children, particularly those in most need, can access and participate in good quality early learning?
Department for Education, 2025
child development
early childhood education
family support
early years
parental engagement
accessibility
pre-school
nursery
childminders
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Best start in life - improving development of disadvantaged children
Which interventions in early years settings are most effective in supporting child development, for whom, when, where and why?
Department for Education, 2025
child development
early years
early education
pre-school
nursery
childminders
pedagogy
curriculum design
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Best start in life - improving development of disadvantaged children
How can we best develop tools to assess development before school-age, so we can measure important changes in educational outcomes over time and understand the relative impact of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) and home learning environment?
Department for Education, 2025
assessment tools
child development
early childhood education
early years
pre-school
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Best start in life - improving development of disadvantaged children
How can we identify those who will not achieve a good level of development at age 5, to help target early childhood services before school entry?
Department for Education, 2025
child development
early childhood education
special educational needs and disabilities
diagnostics
health services
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Best start in life - improving development of disadvantaged children
Which early childhood services, or combinations of services, are most effective in improving the (health, cognitive, socio-emotional, and educational) development of disadvantaged children before age 5? How does this vary by children’s age (for example 0-2 and 3-5) and for different domains of learning (such as literacy and maths)?
Department for Education, 2025
family support
health services
partnerships
early years
early education
pre-school
nursery
child development
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Best start in life - home
What more can be done to best support families with children under the age of 2, to give those children, particularly the most disadvantaged, the best start in life?
Department for Education, 2025
child development
disadvantaged communities
early childhood education
family support
early years
nursery
pre-school
childcare
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Best start in life - home
Which parenting programmes are most effective, especially in engaging disadvantaged parents and families with a social worker? Are they equally accessible to all families, including those that are hard to reach, and easily scalable?
Department for Education, 2025
accessibility
parenting skills
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Best start in life - home
How do we improve connections and relationships between parents and professionals (e.g. through parental networks)?
Department for Education, 2025
child development
parental engagement
accessibility
family services
professional relationships
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Best start in life - home
How well-used are available family services (such as family hubs and children’s centres services) and how representative are these users? How can we make these services more attractive and easier to access for those parents and carers whose children stand to benefit the most?
Department for Education, 2025
accessibility
family services
parental engagement
youth organisations
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Best start in life - home
How can education and other services best support parents and carers to help their children learn outside formal education settings (including in other locations beyond the home when the home learning environment is not conducive to learning)?
Department for Education, 2025
child development
home learning environment
homework
wrap-around care
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Best start in life - home
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?
Department for Education, 2025
child development
well-being
home learning environment
social mobility
poverty
child protection
homework
youth organisations
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Best start in life - home
What are the most cost-effective ways to support parents and carers to help their children to learn and develop (from early years through to adulthood), including through play?
Department for Education, 2025
child development
play
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