Letters are being sent out to randomly selected families with nine-month-old babies inviting them to take part in the ‘Children of the 2020s’ study, which will include research on child development and the use of informal and formal childcare and early education.
The research has been commissioned by the Department for Education and is led by researchers from University College London (UCL).
Ipsos and the universities of Cambridge and Oxford, and Birkbeck, University of London, are also involved in the study.
The research will follow children during the first five years of their lives, and potentially beyond, and will look at factors that influence their development in the early years.
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