IES launches new Trials Unit to help organisations test and apply evidence of ‘what works’ in public policy and workplace practice

The childcare sector: providers and the workforce in England

An Early Years revolution? Time to focus on high-quality early education

Sustaining practitioner learning in early years settings with speech and language therapist support

IES evaluations in action: Mercers’ Early Years Special Initiatives

Launch of the IES Trials Unit: an explainer

How speech and language therapists have supported early years practitioners during the pandemic

Research during a pandemic 2: How has our research in pre-16 education gone this summer?

How can speech and language therapists help nurseries catch up this year?

Tackling Educational Inequality and the Digital Divide: Reflections on the IES report for the OVO Foundation on education inequality in the early years

Research during a pandemic: Evaluating interventions in the early years with nursery and school disruption

Nursery closures will hurt disadvantaged children the most - targeted funding and a long-term Early Years strategy are needed now

Can an app help spot the gap? How technology might help address attainment gaps among early years children

Why are nurseries in financial trouble? An explainer

Why furthering understanding of pre-16 education is crucial to our mission

CECIL: Final Report

Coaching Early Conversations Interaction and Language (CECIL) Merseyside Evaluation infographic

CECIL Merseyside Evaluation infographic

Coaching Early Conversations Interaction and Language (CECIL) Merseyside Evaluation

Flexible Phonics: updated March 2024

Coaching Early Conversations Interaction and Language (CECIL) Evaluation

Flexible Phonics

Catch up Literacy Evaluation Report

Coaching Early Conversation Interaction and Language (CECIL) Nottinghamshire sustainability evaluation

Tips by Text

Coaching Early Conversation Interaction and Language (CECIL) Evaluation infographic

Coaching Early Conversation Interaction and Language (CECIL) Evaluation

From early years to adult learning: IES research to support education and life chances

OVO Foundation report: Education Inequality in the early years

Early Years Toolbox

Teachers', leaders' and governors' views on the pay framework

Careers provision in colleges

Early Talk Boost

Sutton Trust Early Language Project

Tips by Text

Sutton Trust Early Language project

Sutton Trust CECIL Phase 2b

WWCSC Catch Up® Literacy

Supporting the foundations of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths)

Language in the Early Years

Early Years Monitoring and Evaluation

Direct Mapping and Set-for-Variability

Early Years Toolbox Evaluation

Teachers' and leaders' views on the pay framework: a review

Methodological challenges in education RCTs: reflections from England’s Education Endowment Foundation, Dawson A, Yeomans E, Rosa Brown E, Educational Research, Taylor & Francis, Vol. 60, No. 3, August 2018

Coaching Early Conversation Interaction and Language: An implementation and process evaluation of two speech and language therapy programmes in early years settings

Dawson A, Huxely C, European Early Childhood Education Research Association, September 2021