The digital world can cause much controversy when it comes to children and young people: when, how and what should they have access to, why do they seek connection online and who is responsible and accountable for their safety?

This project will work with eight special schools to conduct a feasibility randomised controlled trial of anti-bullying programme KiVa-SEND.

The Mathematical Reasoning (MR) programme aims to promote pupils’ understanding of numbers and number sense (encompassing additive composition of number and place value, and the inverse relation between addition and subtraction) and quantitative reasoning and problem solving (different relations that can be established between quantities, encompassing part whole or additive relations, and one to many correspondence or multiplicative relations).

Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is one of the most prevalent neurodevelopmental conditions, affecting around 8% of children aged 5–6 years.

The Study of Early Education and Development (SEED) is a large-scale longitudinal, mixed methods research involving: i) a longitudinal study to follow the progress of over 5,000 children from age 2 until the end of Key Stage 1 (aged 7); ii) a study of 1,000 early years settings attended by the children in the longitudinal study; iii) intensive case studies of good practice in 16 early years settings; iv) a value for money study to quantify and monetise the impacts of early education; v) qualitative studies exploring the experience of childminders on the free entitlement provision, and how the needs of children with special educational needs and/or disability are met.