Our new evidence review How are the lives of families with young children changing? draws on 130 sources and explores how family context and social and economic factors are combining to create a new environment for early childhood that is marked by inequality and insufficiently understood.
Compared to 20 years ago, today’s under-fives are much more likely to be in formal childcare, to start school earlier and to have both parents in paid employment. The employment rate for mothers whose youngest child is two years old rose from 49 per cent in 1996 to 66 per cent in 2018 (see graphics).
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