Skip to main content
Collection

Ofsted early years education research

Ofsted research for early years education.

Updates to this page

From:
Ofsted
Published:
15 May 2015
Last updated:
30 April 2025
Show all updates

  1. Added 'Getting it right from the start: how early years practitioners work with babies and toddlers' under 'Providers and quality of provision'.

  2. New research added: 'Strong foundations in the first years of school' and 'Best start in life part 3: the 4 specific areas of learning'.

  3. Added new research 'How early years multiple providers work'.

  4. Added a link to survey inviting feedback on publications.

  5. First published.

Ofsted carries out research alongside its main inspection work.

This serves a range of purposes. Depending on the subject chosen, this provides an opportunity to focus on specific issues in greater detail than is possible during an institutional inspection. Alternatively, it may explore an aspect that falls outside the current inspection framework, or look at provision in areas of our remit that we do not currently inspect.

Best start in life

A series of subject-based curriculum research reviews focused on early years education.

Curriculum

Disadvantaged children

Inspections

Providers and quality of provision

Contents

Related content