Early education and outcomes to age 5

Tens of thousands of working parents say the government is failing them with inadequate childcare policies that leave them financially crippled, stymied in their careers and desperate for radical change, according to a major survey. The survey of...

The Sutton Trust in partnership with the Sylvia Adams Charitable Trust have published a report looking at the inequality in access to early education and childcare for three- and four-year-olds in England. Currently government funding is available...

The Sure Start programme had long-lasting health benefits for children including reducing hospitalisation later in life, new research on the early years scheme has found. New Labour’s flagship early years programme, which reached its peak in 2010...