The comments made by the chair of TACTYC, the Association for the Professional Development of Early Years Educators, followed the publication of a Department for Education consultation into early education and childcare research priorities and questions.
The short report details the DfE’s policy aims and suggests three key research themes for future investigation: raising quality, increasing choice and improving affordability.
These include researching the most cost effective and sustainable ways to achieve a professional and confident workforce, models for delivering continuous professional development (CPD), and how to simplify the government’s early education funding system.
TACTYC chair Jane Payler, who is also a senior lecturer in early years education at the University of Winchester, said the government needed to ensure its research had 'breadth and depth'.
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