Projects

Our work in the sector

Early Education has a wealth of experience delivering projects for a range of clients. Our project work includes commissioned research studies, quality improvement support, and consultancy. Our current and latest projects are highlighted below, including further details about the work and impact for practitioners and children. 

The Value of Early Years Qualifications: Quality, Skills & Progression

Funded by the Nuffield Foundation, The Value of Early Years Qualifications: Quality, Skills & Progression is a two-year project which will explore the core knowledge and skills that early years qualifications (EYQs) should provide at both entry and leadership levels.
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Supporting Pedagogy, Arts and Creativity Everywhere (SPACE) to flourish

SPACE to Flourish is a four year project which aims to improve children’s school readiness through a focus on supporting creativity and the arts. It is currently funded by The Mercers’ Company, trustee to the Charity of Sir Richard Whittington.
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Early years workforce policy in the four UK nations: a comparative analysis

Early Education partnered with colleagues at five UK universities to understand policy issues around the early years workforce in all four nations of the UK, and to make policy recommendations for the future.
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New edition of Birth to 5 Matters

Birth to 5 Matters is guidance produced by the sector, for the sector, by the Early Years Coalition. Originally introduced to support the revised Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage in England in 2021, it has been updated in 2026 throughout and with additional content including sections on digital pedagogy, sustainability, birth to 2 and Reception and beyond.
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Examples of other project work

Exploring the Wider World - funded by the Stoke-on-Trent Opportunity Area

Delivered by Early Education between April 2019 and March 2020, this project offered fully funded training and support to all private, voluntary and independent (PVI) settings in Stoke-on-Trent to give children wider experiences of the world around them.

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Outdoors and Active - London Borough of Newham

Outdoors and Active – an action research project led by the London Borough of Newham – took practitioners from nurseries, schools, PVI settings and children’s centres on an eight-month long exploration of movement in 2- and 3-year-olds, which generated intriguing discoveries and practical, realistic changes to routines, resources and risk taking.

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Early Years Pupil Premium project - Department for Education

Early Education received funding from the Department for Education under its 2015-16 Voluntary and Community Sector grants programme, for a project to support and evaluate strategies for implementing the Early Years Pupil Premium. Our aim was to explore how to help the sector make the best possible use of the EYPP, and to demonstrate the impact it can have. 

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Greenwich Maintained Nursery School Review

Early Education was commissioned by the Royal Borough of Greenwich to undertake a review of their maintained nursery schools (MNS) in July 2019.  The brief was to review the MNS in Greenwich and offer ideas and proposals as to how the high quality early education they offered could be sustained and preserved.

Oldham Childminders Project

The project has offered on-going quality improvement support and training to a cohort of childminders in the Oldham area since early 2021. The project has offered a blend of virtual and in-person support as both a targeted and universal offer.

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Have an idea for a project?

If you would like to discuss options or would like suggestions on how we can best support your vision for a project, please contact us so we can talk through the possibilities of what we can offer you.
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