Nursery World - 'Early years library' of free evidence-based interventions launched

Evidence-based tools which actually work in the environment of a busy unpredictable early years setting are in short supply, but a new toolkit developed by the University of Cambridge, among others, is aiming to change that

High-quality early childhood education (ECE) can have a positive impact on children’s outcomes and can help mitigate the effects of disadvantage. Despite the progress made so far, bringing evidence-based programmes to scale in the UK can still pose some challenges. Structured manuals can be perceived as being too top-down or manualised; embedding practices or strategies from such programmes in the early years setting can be difficult; and the costs for comprehensive curricula can limit their use.

The Early Years Library, launched last month, is a free resource, developed by the Early Intervention Foundation and the PEDAL centre at the University of Cambridge, that aims to address the potential barriers to delivering evidence-based early childhood education. It is aligned to statutory requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), and includes 14 booklets across three vital areas of early years learning:

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