Research and policy

Your research reports are relevant, succinct and readable. They enable me to keep up-to-date with literacy trends without having to trawl through pages of documentation.
Barbara Band, LRC Manager, The Emmbrook School, Wokingham

Understanding the implications that research and policy have on practice is key. Below is a bank of articles which will inform and provoke thought regarding literacy practice in schools.

Talk To Your Baby other policies:

• 26Mar2009
  Research: nurturing parenting capability - the early years

  This study of 1,136 mothers from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, investigated how mother and child characteristics and contextual sources of stress and support predict mother-child interactions observed at one and five years.

• 04Feb2009
  Research: Differences in early gesture explain SES disparities in child vocabulary size at school entry

  Children with a large vocabulary are known to perform better at school. This study of 50 young families with 14-month-old children from different socio-economic backgrounds suggested that early gesture plays a direct or indirect role in word learning.

• 01Feb2009
  Policy: The child health strategy - healthy lives, better futures

  This wide ranging document sets out plans to improve children's health up to the age of 19, as part of a commitment made in the Children's Plan.

• 01Feb2009
  Policy: The Good Childhood Inquiry

  Final report from the independent Good Childhood Inqiury lead by the Children's Society

• 01Dec2008
  Policy: Better Communication

  An action plan to improve services for children and young people with speech, language and communication needs.

• 08Sep2008
  Research: The next generation

  A policy report from the Early Years Commission looking at how to support parents in raising their children.

• 01Sep2008
  Policy: the next generation

  A policy report from the Early Years Commission, chaired by Dr Samantha Callaghan, Centre for Social Justice

• 01Sep2008
  Research: 12-month-olds communicate helpfully and appropriately for knowledgeable and ignorant partners

  An investigation into whether 12-month-old infants gesture differently towards an informed versus uninformed adult, finds that infants' early pointing is indeed premised on an understanding of others' knowledge and ignorance.

• 31Jul2008
  Research: Effective and efficient use of resources in services for children and young people with speech, language and communication needs

  This study, commissioned to support the Bercow Report, found substantial variation in service provision and practice across six case studies.

• 26Jul2008
  Policy: Children's sector workforce: latest reports

  A selection of reports related to the children's sector.