. This closes one-third of the gap between children with median and bottom quartile family income, and is about 80 percent as … large as model programs such as Perry Preschool. The long-term impact for disadvantaged children is large despite “fadeout …

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted many aspects of children's lives, with impacts on their social and emotional …., 2021); lack of contact with friends and extended family left some children without a trusted adult to turn to (Newlove … this report, we consider another channel through which the pandemic may have affected children's social and emotional …

The last 25 years has seen a transformation in how early years education and childcare is approached in England. The … establishment and subsequent expansions of a "free entitlement" to funded early education and childcare have seen early years …

Our sixth annual report on education spending shows changes over time across different stages of education, as well as …

children and their parents has been made particularly obvious over the last few years. In this report, we analyse how public … spending on early childhood education and care has changed over the last two decades. Overall spending on the early years in …

child working memory - a key skill of executive functioning that plays a central role in children's development of cognitive … preschool enrolment decisions. Children were enrolled earlier and in higher quality preschools, the latter reflecting a shift in …