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And many of them are not getting the help they need.
A few notable successes, but could do better.
Research has found a relationship between pretend play and a child’s developing creativity, understanding of others and social competence with peers.
The Medical Research Council’s National Survey of Health and Development turns 70 this month, and is more ambitious than ever.
The welfare state increases the number of children born at risk of developing personality profiles that make them less likely to get a job.
The world outside the womb is full of new sensations for a newborn. New research is explaining how they navigate it.
Plans to double free childcare will only be available for ‘working parents’.
We shouldn’t just be blaming the middle classes for snapping up all the free childcare spots.
New research shows that children who start school young are struggling to keep up with curriculum targets.
Why the government’s policy could end up harming children’s chances.
Politicians promising to expand free childcare is no bad thing, but it is difficult to deliver in practice
Our experts find that the Green Party’s generous pledges on education will cost them.
Labour’s 2015 manifesto aims to improve life for children and it suggests that one effective means of achieving that aim is to invest in early years’ provision. The claim is that a child’s language development…
Learning from TV programmes is rooted in repetition and interaction.
It is predictable that the Labour Party’s election pledge to expand Sure Start has turned into a row over how many children’s centres have actually closed since the coalition government took over in 2010…
In order to make young children “school ready”, the English government is now encouraging parents to place their children in school nurseries shortly after their second birthday. But there is evidence…
From September 2016, within five weeks of starting primary school, all children in England will receive an assessment that will stay on their record. But we have been here before and it didn’t work. The…
All children with early language problems are at increased risk of struggling at school, and having reduced employment opportunities and life chances, but the risk of early language problems is disproportionately…
Over the last 20 years, early childhood education and childcare for the under-fives has become a major policy priority in the UK. Get more mothers into work, it’s argued, and we can start to close the…
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Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Education, University of Oxford
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Professor of Developmental Language & Communication Disorders, UCL
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Principal Investigator and Senior Researcher, University of Oxford
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Professor of Speech & Language Sciences, Newcastle University
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Associate Professor Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds
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Compton Foundation Centennial Professor of Social Work for the Prevention of Children's and Youth Problems, Columbia University
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Liverpool
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Associate professor, Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Professor of Economics, University of Bristol
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Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Cumbria
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Professor Emeritus, Lifelong Learning, University of Stirling
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Professor of Developmental Psychology, City, University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology & Education, University of Cambridge
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Director of Research and Deputy Head of Southampton Education School, University of Southampton
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Chair of Early Childhood Education and Care, The University of Melbourne
