A new education commission for Oxfordshire, led by former director of children's services in Brent Gail Tolley, has been tasked with improving educational outcomes for all children and young people in the county.
The FINANCIAL Early childhood education in England has undergone a ‘levelling up’ in the last two decades, according to research from Professor Edward Melhuish, and Dr Julian Gardiner of University of Oxford’s Department of Education. A study report on nearly 5,000 children, Study of Early Education and Development (SEED): Impact Study on Early Education Use and Child Outcomes up to age seven years, published by the Department of Education, notes, ‘There has been a levelling up in the ECEC [Early Childhood Education and Care] experiences of children across the socio-economic spectrum.’ According to the researchers, there is near universalThe FINANCIAL Early childhood education in England has undergone a ‘levelling up’ in the last two decades, according to research from Professor Edward Melhuish, and Dr Julian Gardiner of University of Oxford’s Department of Education. A study report on nearly 5,000 children, Study of Early Education and Development (SEED): Impact St