A new research partnership between The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) and the Nuffield Foundation aims to build evidence of the most effective interventions that will help close the attainment gap between children from the disadvantaged backgrounds and their better-off peers.
At the start of school, children from the poorest families are estimated to be 19 months behind those from the wealthiest of the same age in their vocabulary.
The new partnership aims to provide ‘a pipeline’ for applications from not-for-profit organisations to enable them to develop their early years intervention ideas.
It is open to applications from a range of organisations, including an individual nursery, an academy trust, or a charity, for example, as long as there is some evidence that their idea has a positive impact on learning outcomes.
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