Questions from the Department for Education:
Best start in life - brain development
What factors influence children’s brain development from birth to the early 20s, and what works in supporting healthy brain development to enable learning? (See also our Areas of Research Interest in relation to the ‘Every child achieving and thriving’ pillar of the Opportunity Mission)
Department for Education, 2025
Opportunity Mission
• What are the best (most cost-effective and scalable) ways that education and children’s social care can increase opportunities and address disadvantage (socioeconomic and other forms) throughout children and young people’s education and care journeys and into the labour market?
• When, where, how, and for whom do they work best?
Department for Education, 2025