Early Childhood Inequalities - Sarah Cattan Emla Fitzsimons Alissa Goodman Angus Phimister

Early Childhood Inequalities Early Childhood Inequalities Sarah Cattan Emla Fitzsimons Alissa Goodman Angus Phimister George Ploubidis Jasmin Wertz This presentation 1. [...] How have early childhood inequalities evolved over the past 20 years? 2. [...] Where do we go from here to reduce early childhood inequalities? Early childhood inequalities © Institute for Fiscal Studies How have early inequalities evolved over the past 20 years? Early childhood inequalities © Institute for Fiscal Studies Trends in early childhood inequalities A difficult question to answer…. [...] Scarce data on (very) early development of children over time • Administrative data: Early Years Foundation Stage Profile (age 5) • Longitudinal surveys: cohort born in 2000-02 (Millennium Cohort Study) and cohort born in 2010-12 (Study of Early Education and Development), restricted to England only Change in measurements over time • Early Years Foundation Stage Profile framework changed in 2012-1. [...] Cut to some child-contigent benefits Early childhood inequalities © Institute for Fiscal Studies Free entitlement to childcare In 2018-19, £3.8bn spending on free entitlement The only policy that has seen large spending increase since 2010 • Entitlement to 15 hours free childcare for all 3 and 4 year-olds since early 2000s, extended to 30 hours for children of working families in 2017 • Entitlemen.