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Today’s parents still prioritise playtime, despite added pressures

30 November 2023

Four in five primary caregivers of nine-month-old babies reported cuddling, talking and playing with their little one several times a day, in the first national long-term study of babies in over two decades, led by UCL.

Child development

Using linked Hospital Episode Statistics data to aid the handling of non-response and restore sample representativeness in the 1958 National Child Development Study – CLS Working Paper 2023/1

14 February 2023

Intergenerational transmission of educational disadvantage: Educational progression of children of care leavers compared to other children in a general population sample – CLS Working Paper 2022/7

6 September 2022

The forgotten fifth: Examining the early education trajectories of teenagers who fall below the expected standards in GCSE English language and maths examinations at age 16 – CLS Working Paper 2022/6

1 September 2022

Prevalence and predictors of weapon carrying and use and other offences at age 17: Evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study – CLS working paper 2021/8

30 June 2021

The relationship between A-level subject choice and league table score of university attended: the ‘facilitating’, the ‘less suitable’ and the counter-intuitive- CLS working paper 2017/7

14 August 2017

Inequalities and the curriculum – young people’s views on choice and fairness through their experiences of curriculum as examination specifications at GCSE- CLS working paper 2017/6

31 July 2017

Inequalities and the curriculum – philosophical debates on the curriculum and social justice- CLS working paper 2017/5

31 July 2017

Working at a different level? Curriculum differentiation in Irish lower secondary education- CLS working paper 2017/4

31 July 2017

Inequalities in school leavers’ labour market outcomes- CLS working paper 2017/3

31 July 2017

Social Class, Gender and Ethnic Differences in Subjects Taken at Age 14- CLS working paper 2016/6

31 July 2017

Vocabulary from adolescence to middle-age- CLS working paper 2014/7

30 July 2017

Non-cognitive skills: What are they and how can they be measured by the British cohort studies?- CLS working paper 2014/6

30 July 2017

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