Nursery World - New study into the early years workforce and its role on children's outcomes

The Education Policy Institute has launched a two-year programme of research into the early years workforce and its impact on children’s outcomes.

The research, which is supported by the Nuffield Foundation, has four strands.

The EPI will publish a series of reports over the two years, setting out our findings and generating discussion about how these findings can be used to make better policy.

The research will include an assessment of the current state of the workforce, the incentives and barriers to recruiting and retaining qualified staff, the strategies available to improve the provision of better-qualified staff, the role of CPD and the link between staff qualification and child outcomes.

Announcing the research in Nursery World, Natalie Perera, executive director and head of research at the EPI, said, ‘The existing evidence is clear that the quality of early years provision matters and that it can have a positive and lasting impact on children’s outcomes. That is particularly the case for disadvantaged children, where we know that 40 per cent of the disadvantage gap at age 16 is already apparent by age five.

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