Thousands of babies are set to join a study of early childhood as part of research into children of the 2020s.
The study, commissioned by the Department for Education and led by researchers from University College London will follow children for the first five years of their lives at least.
It hopes to inform decisions about early years and childcare services, exploring how both the pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis has impacted the children, the study’s researchers say.
The research, which is the first birth cohort study to be launched since the millennium, will be conducted in partnership with Ipsos, the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and Birkbeck, University of London.
