I’m very excited to be able to announce that the Education Policy Institute will be carrying out a new, two-year programme of research to study the early years workforce and its impact on children’s outcomes. This research is supported by the Nuffield Foundation.
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.
What we don’t really know is which features of quality are most effective, especially in closing the disadvantage gap. We know that having a graduate in a setting can make a difference, but the evidence is limited as to what type of graduate is most important and what role they should play within the setting.
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