Education Committee to hold first oral evidence session on impact on children of early years education and social policy

The Education Committee is to question practitioners, researchers and voluntary organisations in the first oral evidence session of the life chances inquiry.

The inquiry is examining the impact that early years education and social policy have on determining children’s life chances. It will also look at Government policy and make recommendations on how to improve social justice, while considering the role of services other than education, including health services and those provided by the Department for Work and Pensions.

The first session in the inquiry will focus on early years education provision, support for parents and families and the role of children’s centres in promoting social justice.

Witness schedule

Tuesday 12 June, Committee Room 15

At 10am

Panel One

• Liz Bayram, Chief Executive, Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years (PACEY)
• Sara Bonetti, Associate Director of Early Years, Education Policy Institute
• Beatrice Merrick, Chief Executive, Early Education
• Prof Dominic Wyse, Founding Director, Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy (0-11 years)

Panel Two

• Sir Kevan Collins, Chief Executive, Education Endowment Foundation
• Laura McFarlane, Director of the LEAP Programme, National Children’s Bureau
• Steven McIntosh, Director of UK Poverty Policy, Advocacy and Campaigns, Save the Children
• Prof Edward Melhuish, Professor of Human Development, University of Birkbeck