Early Years Publications of Research Reports

This article has been brought to you by Slough Borough Council's Early Years Childcare Development Co-ordinator, Clare Thompson, for the attention of Early Years, Childminders, PVI's, Nurseries, Nursery Schools, Primary Schools, Practitioners or Partners working with families who have children under 5 years old.

Publication of Research Reports

The following reports were published this week:

Evaluation of the first year of national rollout of 30 hours free childcare: A mixed methods evaluation of 12 local authorities (LAs) case studies with surveys of providers and registered parents, analysis of 2017 and 2018 census data and qualitative interviews with LAs, stakeholders, providers and parents.

Evaluation guidance and monitoring toolkit for local authorities for 30 hours free childcare: This toolkit aims to help local authorities by:

  • Providing a list of suggested monitoring questions, based on feedback from LAs.
  • Collating prepopulated data from DfE, Ofsted and the ONS, and presenting it in simple charts.
  • Providing a number of templates to help LAs run simple calculations on manually entered data, and present and interpret the findings
  • Providing a list of example survey questions that can be used to inform primary data collection as required.

Follow-up survey to the 2017 Childcare and Early Years Survey of Parents (CEYSP): A follow-up telephone survey of 774 parents of 3-4 year-olds in May-July 2018 that agreed to be re-contacted following their 2017 CEYSP survey (in January–August 2017).

Take-up of Free Early Education Entitlements (FEEE): This report examines the factors affecting take-up of free early education entitlements (FEEE) through a rapid evidence assessment, regression analysis of existing data on take-up, and qualitative interviews with 21 local authority early years leads, 30 providers and 40 parents of 2, 3 and 4 year olds who were not taking up FEEE.

Impact Study on Early Education Use and Child Outcomes up to age four years: The second impact report from the Study of Early Education and Development (SEED), a longitudinal eight-year study following approximately 6,000 children across England from the age of two, through to the end of Key Stage One (age seven).