Nursery World - Baseline £10m contract goes to NFER despite protests over Reception assessment

The sector has expressed concern that the DfE is pressing ahead with plans for a Reception Baseline check following the news that NFER has been chosen to design and deliver the assessment.

The Department for Education (DfE) announced today that the NFER has won the £10m contract to run the Baseline, which will include trialling and piloting the assessment and its delivery in the academic years 2020/21 and 2021/22.

Nursery World reported in November that the DfE had put out a contract to tender for a supplier to develop, pilot and oversee the Baseline, which will be statutory for all pupils in England from September 2020.

The news that the NFER, which is also delivering the OECD International Early Learning and Child Well-Being Study, known as ‘Baby PISA’, has won the contract follows calls from educational experts, teachers and parents for the Government to abandon plans for the assessment.

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