Authors: Jo Blanden, Emilia Del Bono, Kirstine Hansen, Sandra McNally and Birgitta Rabe
Published by: University of Surrey, University of Essex, University of London, October 2014
SUMMARY
The authors of this report, which was presented to the House of Lords in October, say it is the first paper to analyse the effects of the free childcare entitlement for three-year-olds on children's outcomes in England. The research was funded by the Nuffield Foundation and the Economic and Social Research Council's Secondary Data Analysis Initiative.
The researchers looked at data on all students in state schools in England (92 per cent of students), focusing on outcomes at age five, seven and 11, alongside the proportion of children attending nursery and pre-school aged three between 2001 and 2007. They took into account other possible contributing factors, such as ethnicity, eligibility for free school meals and the effect of other policies such as Sure Start, when calculating the effects of pre-school attendance on outcomes.
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