Research and policy

An archive of policy and research summaries is below. You can also download free reports summarising our own research.

Talk To Your Baby other policies:

• 01Jul2008
  Research: Nurse Family Partnership Programme - First Year Pilot Site Implementation in England: Pregnancy and the post Partum period

  This research was undertaken to consider the feasibility of implementing the Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) programme in England in 10 test sites and its short-term impact on practitioners, the wider service community and children and families.

• 01Jul2008
  Research: The Effects of Background Television on the Toy Play Behaviour of Very Young Children

  A report on an experiment run to test the hypothesis that background, adult television is a disruptive influence on very young children's behaviour.

• 02Jun2008
  Research: The good, the bad and the pacifier - unsettling accounts of early years practice

  In this article, interviews with eight managers and questionnaires from 75 practitioners are analysed to explore their perceptions of the role of pacifiers (or dummies) within the nursery.

• 01May2008
  Research: Thursday's Child

  This report considers educational reform in the context of a change in the political agenda.

• 01Apr2008
  Research: for love or money - pay, progression and professionalisation in the 'early years' workforce

  A report from IPPR's Working out of Poverty series looking at the state of the early years workforce.

• 01Apr2008
  Research: For Love or Money: Pay, progression and professionalisation in the 'early years' workforce

  The second report from the IPPR's Working Out of Poverty series looking at the impact of low wages and limited progression at work on the early years sector.

• 01Mar2008
  Policy: TTYB submission to the Bercow Review

  Recommendations from Talk To Your Baby to feed into the Bercow Review.

• 01Dec2007
  Policy: The Children's Plan: Building Brighter Futures

  Extracts from the 2008 Children's Plan.

• 29Aug2007
  Research: Early years: Getting on well - enjoying, achieving and contributing

  Getting on well is the second national report on how early years and childcare providers are supporting Every Child Matters outcomes for children.

• 31Jul2007
  Policy: The Cambridge Primary Review - Research Survey 2/1a: Children's Cognitive Development and Learning

  The Cambridge Primary Review was an independent enquiry into the condition and future of primary education in England, supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and based at the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge.