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Children’s attainment in the early years in a post-pandemic world

The new Labour government has pledged to reform the education system. With reports highlighting the pandemic’s negative impact on children’s development, it is crucial to assess post-pandemic...

School-based early years provision: We need to know more about how to support effective leadership

Incoming policy In response to growing pressure on the early education and care system, the new Labour government is forging ahead with plans to create thousands of nursery places inside existing...

Putting oral language at the heart of early years education

In her TES article in July 2023, the now UK Secretary of State for Education, Bridget Phillipson, emphasised oral language skills in her commitment to improving early years education. This is a...

(Re)focusing on high-quality early childhood education and care

Over the past 25 years, the early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector in England has undergone significant transformations. As the evidence of its positive impact on children’s social and...

Equity by design: A shared vision to reduce school exclusion in England

School exclusion and social exclusion are complex, multi-dimensional and intertwining processes. The disproportionate impact that school exclusion has on children with special educational needs...

Writing Retreat and Coffee hour

This writing retreat is aimed at providing a friendly space for writing and networking and in particular ECRs, organised by the Education for Environmental Sustainability SIG.  From feedback...

Special educational needs policy requires research infrastructure

Over the past 25 years, there have been successive policy changes to funding, categorisation and implementation of special educational needs (SEN) provision in England. Yet there is limited...

The importance of social security to children’s lives: Lessons from a mixed methods study of the two-child limit and the benefit cap

In recent years, stories of schools providing for children’s basic needs have become common. We hear that nearly one-in-five teachers has personally washed a school uniform; one-in-four has...

The Creative Educator

Arts Based Educational Research SIG Webinar Series

The Creative Educator – How educators use the arts to enrich teaching practices and transform learning environments This webinar introduces arts based education research methodologies and...

The Creative Educator

The Creative Educator – How educators use the arts to enrich teaching practices and transform learning environments This webinar introduced arts based education research methodologies and...

Kitty Stewart

Kitty Stewart is Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Associate Director of LSE’s Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion. She has a PhD in...

Claudine Bowyer-Crane

Claudine Bowyer-Crane is Professor of Education in the School of Education at the University of Sheffield. She has a PhD in Psychology from the University of York. Claudine’s research focuses...