This is a new section that lists website links to the latest early years reports available from various agencies, where you can access current useful information.

Reports already added to this section:
Summer 2011 | Spring 2011 | Winter 10 | Spring 10 | Autumn 09 | Summer 09 | Spring 09 | Autumn 08 | Summer 08 | Spring 08 | Autumn 07

Summer Term 2011:

• Investigating the role of language in children's early educational outcomes
• Rolling out free early education for disadvantaged two year olds: an implementation study for local authorities and providers
• Performing against the odds: developmental trajectories of children in the EPPSE 3-16 study

Spring Term 2011:

• Save The Children: State of the World's Mothers Report 2011 (May 2011)
• The Early Years: Foundations for life health and learning (April 2011)
• The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Review: Report on the Evidence (March 2011)
• Australian Early Years Learning Framework: Belonging, Being and Becoming (February 2011)

Spring 2011 | Winter 10 | Spring 10 | Autumn 09 | Summer 09 | Spring 09 | Autumn 08 | Summer 08 | Spring 08 | Autumn 07

Winter Term 2010:

• Children's experiences of the Early Years Foundation Stage (December 2010)
• Sizing up: a comparative study of childcare policies within the four regions of the UK (November 2010)
• Grasping the Nettle: early intervention for children, families and communities (October 2010)
• The Early Years Parent Review 2009 (October 2010)
• Tech Tonic: Towards a New Literacy of Technology

Spring 2011 | Winter 10 | Spring 10 | Autumn 09 | Summer 09 | Spring 09 | Autumn 08 | Summer 08 | Spring 08 | Autumn 07

Spring Term 2010:

• House of Commons Children, Schools and Families Committee: Training of Teachers (Jan. 2010)

Spring 2011 | Winter 10 | Spring 10 | Autumn 09 | Summer 09 | Spring 09 | Autumn 08 | Summer 08 | Spring 08 | Autumn 07

Autumn Term 2009:

• A Bit Rich: Calculating the real value to society of different professions (Dec. 2009)
• Learning, Playing and Interacting: Good practice in the Early Years Foundation Stage. London: DCFS/QCDA (Dec. 2009)
• UNICEF Positive indicators of child well-being: a conceptual framework, measures and methodological issues. (Dec. 2009)
• DCSF Early Years Learning and Development - Literature Review. (Dec. 2009)
• DCSF The Children's Plan Two Years On: a progress report. (Dec. 2009)
• There will also be regional conferences for leaders/managers starting in early November, at which they will hear about and debate the implications of the final report with the Review team (see here). (Nov. 2009)
• The Review team, in conjunction with Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and the RSA, organised a public event. Find out more here (Oct. 2009)
• THE INDEPENDENT CAMBRIDGE PRIMARY REVIEW: Those of you who have been following this independent primary review, will be please to know that its final report is now available entitled: Children, their World, their Education: Final Report and Recommendations of the Cambridge Primary Review, published by Routledge. The 600+ pages cover in detail the Review's ten major themes and the report ends with a set of formal conclusions and recommendations for future policy and practice (Sep. 2009)

Spring 2011 | Winter 10 | Spring 10 | Autumn 09 | Summer 09 | Spring 09 | Autumn 08 | Summer 08 | Spring 08 | Autumn 07

Summer Term 2009:

• Crisis in the Kindergarten - Why Children Need to play in school by Alliance for Childhood (Apr. 2009)
• A Children's Environment and Health Strategy for the United Kingdom (Mar. 2009)
• House of Commons Children, Schools and Families Committee: National Curriculum - Fourth Report of Session 2008–09 (Mar. 2009)

Spring 2011 | Winter 10 | Spring 10 | Autumn 09 | Summer 09 | Spring 09 | Autumn 08 | Summer 08 | Spring 08 | Autumn 07

Spring Term 2009:

• A Good Childhood: Searching for Values in a Competitive Age, by The Children's Society
  (Feb. 2009)
• Towards a New Primary Curriculum, by the Independent Review of the Primary Curriculum
  (Feb. 2009)
• Next Steps for Early Learning and Childcare: Building on the 10-Year Strategy (Feb. 2009)
• Every Child a Talker (Feb. 2009)
• The Children's Plan: One Year On, by the Department for Children, Schools and Families
  (Jan. 2009)
• The Children's Plan: Building brighter futures, by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (Jan. 2008)

Spring 2011 | Winter 10 | Spring 10 | Autumn 09 | Summer 09 | Spring 09 | Autumn 08 | Summer 08 | Spring 08 | Autumn 07

Autumn Term 2008:

• OfSTED Annual Report, by the Chief Inspector, Christine Gilbert (Dec. 2008)
• Rose Review of the Primary Curriculum Interim report, by the Independent Review of the Primary Curriculum (Dec. 2008)

Spring 2011 | Winter 10 | Spring 10 | Autumn 09 | Summer 09 | Spring 09 | Autumn 08 | Summer 08 | Spring 08 | Autumn 07

Summer Term 2008:

• Primary schools: the professional environment, by Liz Jones, Andy Pickard and Ian Stronach, Manchester Metropolitan University, Primary Review Research Survey 6/2. (Apr. 2008)
• Primary teachers: initial teacher education, continuing professional development and school leadership development, by Olwen McNamara and Rosemary Webb, Manchester University, and Mark Brundrett, Liverpool John Moores University, Primary Review Research Survey 6/3.(Apr. 2008)
• Primary workforce management and reform, by Hilary Burgess, The Open University, Primary Review Research Survey 6/4. (Apr. 2008)
• For Love or Money: Pay, progression and professionalisation in the 'early years' workforce by Graeme Cooke and Kayte Lawton for IPPR. (Apr. 2008)
• The Interim Report from the Williams Mathematics Review (Early Years and Primary) (Apr. 2008)

Spring 2011 | Winter 10 | Spring 10 | Autumn 09 | Summer 09 | Spring 09 | Autumn 08 | Summer 08 | Spring 08 | Autumn 07

Spring Term 2008:

• Further reports from the Primary Review (Feb. 2008)
  The Structure and Content of English Primary Education: international perspectives
  Research Survey 9/1: The Structure of Primary Education: England and other countries (Anna Riggall and Caroline Sharp)
  9/1 briefing
  9/1 report
  Research Survey 3/1: Primary Curriculum and Assessment: England and other countries (Kathy Hall and Kamil Øzerk)
  3/1 briefing
  3/1 report
  Research Survey 3/2: The Trajectory and Impact of National Reform: curriculum and assessment in English primary schools
  Research Survey 3/3: Primary Curriculum Futures (James Conroy, Moira Hulme and Ian Menter)
  3/3 briefing
  3/3 report
  ii) Research Survey 4/3: Quality Assurance in English Primary Education
  iii) Research Survey 10/1: The Funding of English Primary Education
  iv) Research Survey 10/2: The Governance and Administration of English Primary Education
• Estelle Morris on inequalitites (Mar. 2008)
• Children's author, Jacqueline Wilson, on childhood (Mar. 2008)
• Independent Review of the Primary Curriculum: Publications (Jan. 2008)
• British children's TV viewing habits (Jan. 2008)
• The Risk and Regulation Advisory Council (Jan. 2008)
• 'Play should be seen and heard' (Jan. 2008)

Spring 2011 | Winter 10 | Spring 10 | Autumn 09 | Summer 09 | Spring 09 | Autumn 08 | Summer 08 | Spring 08 | Autumn 07

Autumn Term 2007:

• 'The Children's Plan' (Dec. 2007)
• Primary Review: Children's Cognitive Development and Learning (briefing paper: Dec. 2007)
• 'Children and Young People' Final Report: National Children's Bureau (Nov. 2007)
• Ofsted Annual Report? (Oct. 2007)
• Reception year teachers most important for primary education (Sept. 2007)
• Early Years Initiatives yet to make impact (Aug. 2007)