Education spending Growth in real-terms spending on the free entitlement for 3- and 4-year-olds Published on 10 January 2025 While spending per place and total spending have doubled since 2009, spending per hour is around 23% higher by 2023–24. Education and skills Education Childcare and early years
Sure Start’s wide-ranging and long-lasting benefits highlight the impact of integrated early years services press release Over the long run, Sure Start’s financial benefits could be twice as high as its costs 22 May 2025
Spending Review 2025: What it means and why it matters podcast We take a closer look at the Spending Review and what the policies mean for public services, investment and the wider economy. 12 June 2025
Rethinking the Education Maintenance Allowance: Lessons from a long-term analysis comment This evidence should prompt us to look beyond simple financial incentives for classroom attendance. 10 March 2025
What does the Spending Review really mean for FE? comment The chancellor has pledged an extra £1.2 billion annually for FE by 2028-29. But will this be enough to reverse a decade of cuts? 12 June 2025
Popularity of new childcare entitlements could leave spending much higher than initially forecast comment New childcare entitlements have proven popular – meaning spending from 2026 onwards could be £1 billion higher than originally forecast. 12 June 2025
What the spending review really means for schools comment The next few years are going to be very tight for school budgets and forecasting anything more than a real-terms freeze is highly optimistic. 12 June 2025
The health effects of universal early childhood interventions: evidence from Sure Start working paper We estimate the health impacts of Sure Start, a universal integrated ECI in England, from infancy to adolescence. 9 May 2025
The short- and long-run effects of paying disadvantaged teenagers to go to school working paper This working paper studies the long-run effect of a cash transfer to disadvantaged students on educational attainment, earnings and crime. 26 February 2025
Imagine your life at 25: gender conformity and later-life outcomes working paper We analyse thousands of essays written by 11-year-old girls in 1969 to assess conformity with gender norms and its implications for future outcomes. 22 February 2025
