Early years settings that took part were in a range of areas, including urban and rural providers and places with high levels of deprivation and diverse communities.
The ten local authority areas were: Blackpool, Cornwall, Greenwich, Kent, London Borough of Lambeth, Lancashire, Newcastle, Northamptonshire, Peterborough and Rotherham. A total of 1,400 two-year-olds took part in the trial.
The aim was to:
The local authorities taking part agreed to share what they had learnt from the trials.
The report, Early Learning for Two-Year-Olds: trials, published by the DfE, brings together the experiences of the ten areas that took part in the pilots. It includes examples of case studies showing how local authorities and providers developed partnerships and used a range of innovative strategies to meet the capacity and sustainability of the two-year-old programme.
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