Less than one in five under 6s getting the physical activity they should following the pandemic
This release highlights finding from polling of 1,000 UK parents with children aged between 1 and 5 on the levels of their child’s physical activity.
Category: Reports
Reports
High quality outdoor learning
Evidence-based education outside the classroom for children, teachers and society.
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National child measurement programme
Changes in children’s body mass index between 2006/07 and 2015/16
Free school meals evidence pack update
The Feed the Future campaign run by the School Food Review is calling for Free School Meals at lunchtime to be extended to all children, beginning with those from families on Universal Credit.
Turning the tide. What it will take to reduce child poverty in the UK – Resolution Foundation
Report focusing on the Government’s headline metric of relative child poverty and look at what might be needed to achieve this welcome goal in the face of significant headwinds.
Tablets for tots? Survey says kids watch videos on their own devices by age 2
Forty percent of toddlers have their own tablet device by the time they are 2 years old, according to a report released Wednesday by Common Sense Media.
The Royal Foundation shaping us framework
The Shaping Us Framework aims to provide an accessible approach to talking about social and emotional skills that cuts across disciplines and engages a broad audience.
LEYF summary report, rethinking bikes in the Nursery
The organisation’s action research model encouraged staff to initiate and lead small-scale studies to review how bikes were used by children and the benefits that were emerging.
Chef Academy impact report
Impact report focusing on the six cohorts of chefs that have participated in the Early Years Chef Academy training up to April 2023.
Talking Early Years: Twoness of Twos
An updated report to raise awareness about LEYF’s role in ensuring two-year-olds thrive in every setting.
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Kindred Squared school readiness survey, February 2024
The fourth annual school readiness* survey sets out perceptions of the scale and impact of children missing their early developmental milestones.
A plan for play: An eye view series report
There is a simple, inexpensive and joyful way to address many of the major challenges facing society and its children; addressing the alarming mental health crisis and obesity epidemic and helping to prepare children for an ever-changing work force.
Prioritising early childhood to promote the nation’s health, wellbeing and prosperity
This report has been approved by the Academy of Medical Sciences’ Council
Bringing up the next generation: from research to policy
Highlights four of the most significant changes and identify policy goals and recommendations that should underpin an ambitious early childhood strategy.
Physical health of children and young people
This is the second of four reports that will set out a practical plan for action by Government to improve the health and wellbeing of children and young people. Our report on ‘The Early Years’ has already been published; reports on Mental Health and Family and Community are forthcoming.
Growing up in the Covid-19 pandemic
An evidence review of the impact of pandemic life on physical development in the early years.
‘Twin-track childhood’ will derail post-pandemic recovery as UK slips below minumum standards for child health and wellbeing, claims new report.
Covid-19 has uncovered entrenched health inequalities; hobbling UK children even prior to birth and creating a ‘twin-track childhood’ on course to derail a post-pandemic recovery unless children are placed at the heart of it.
Early years healthy development review 2021
An aspirational framework to improve the lives of all children from conception to aged 2 years.