Almost 11,000 schools – or two-thirds of state-funded schools in England with reception pupils – took part in a government-funded roll-out of a programme to support four- and five-year-olds who would ...

The first NELI Pre-school trial has been a success – what’s significant about the findings? We ran a large, well-powered efficacy trial with 65 nurseries, which found that children made the equivalent ...

Oral language and enrichment programme for nursery-aged children boosts language skills by an additional three months before they start school. NELI in Reception has been accessed by more than 11,000 ...

A Government funded Covid recovery programme to provide additional support for four and five-year-olds with their language skills, has been found to benefit pupils years later. The EEF has published a ...