Early Years
Research on Ratios, Group Size and Staff Qualifications and Training in Early Years and Childcare Settings
This research report puts together, in one volume, reports of two separate but linked projects on child:adult ratios in early years and childcare settings. Both projects
- a literature review of international research on the relationships between ratios, staff qualifications and training, group size and the quality of provision
- empirical research (using fifty day care settings) that was announced by the DfEE, in August 1999, on relaxing adult: child ratios in early years and day care settings
were commissioned by the Department for Education and Employment (DfEE), now the Department for Education and Skills, from the Thomas Coram Research Unit.
