http://www.education.gov.uk/a0074584/elqualityimprovement Quality improvement in Early Years Quality improvement in Early Years Details of the Department's aims for improvement to Early Years provision. <![CDATA[ Research shows high-quality early learning and care is important because children who attend higher quality preschool provision tend to do better throughout primary school, particularly in reading. Evaluation of the two-year-old free entitlement to childcare backs this up. It showed that those children who had attended a high-quality setting had a significant improvement to their vocabulary. Quality early learning and childcare can make a real difference to children’s future success in school and later life, and help them to fulfil their full potential. The Department aims to <ul> <li> Improve the quality of provision, working with the Teaching Agency, by developing and promoting a highly qualified and diverse workforce in partnership with local authorities.</li> <li> Continue to invest funding in graduate leadership programmes in 2012-13 with the Teaching Agency delivering both the Early Years Professional Status and New Leaders in Early Years programmes.</li> <li> Through research, look at ways in which the role of the Early Years provider can have a positive influence on the quality of a child’s early learning in the home, which we know has significant positive benefits on children's later attainment and social behaviour.</li> </ul> ]]> false Early-years practitioner Education and training professionals English 2012-04-23T14:39:13