Sutton Trust - Early Years

Early Years

Impetus - Sutton Early Years Initiative The Sutton Trust has partnered with Impetus to launch an initiative focused on working with disadvantaged parents and their young children to tackle inequality at its roots and close the gap that forms before school between disadvantaged children and their peers. The Trust and Impetus are investing in early years interventions specifically working to close the gap in school readiness.

PEEP Transition Project The pilot project aims to help prepare parents, carers and children for the transition from home to pre-school, particularly targeting those who lack confidence and understanding of how they can help with their children's learning, feel alienated from the education system and experience social isolation and/ or speak English as an additional language. Through various sessions, including a home visit, group sessions to the pre-school setting and a settling-in session on the child's first day, it is hoped that not only will the children feel more supported, but the confidence and ability of parents to help and value their child's learning and development will be improved.

Room to Play Designed to provide support to hard to reach families through drop-in style provision based in a shopping centre in one of the most deprived parts of Oxford. The service provides activities for children, and helps parents learn to facilitate their child's learning through everyday play and interactions. Following a positive evaluation by the University of Oxford, the Trust is now supporting the dissemination of the model and lessons learnt to a number of disadvantaged communities.