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This study we uses Young Lives data to analyse whether attending pre-school affects cognitive abilities at age 5 years
Explanation of terms used in Ofsted's official and national statistical releases.
Guidance about every piece of information you need to send us in summer 2024.
Research into the long-term effect of pre-school on children’s education and development throughout compulsory schooling.
Guidance about every piece of information you need to send us in autumn 2024, and spring and summer 2025.
The purpose of this statistical release is to present final enrolment figures for schools and for children in funded preschool education in the 2022-23 academic year
This study explores how risks and protective factors shape children's learning and why it leads to academic resilience for some, not others.
Brand new recruitment campaign for early years workers launches today across TV, cinema, online, radio and out of home advertising.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
Information on the DfE early years COVID-19 recovery programme, which offers leadership support, coaching and mentoring.
Ofsted has today published the second part in its series of research reviews drawing on a range of research relating to early years education.
First phase of the biggest ever expansion of childcare starts giving working parents of 2-year-olds access to 15 hours a week.
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