Early Childhood Studies & Education Studies & Special Education

Websites 

Associations, organisations and charities are useful places to keep up to date with your subject. You may also find grey literature such as research reports, statistics and literature relevant to your studies. 

Note that your UEL login will not work in the 'member's area' of the professional associations listed - access to the resources may require a personal subscription or membership (if you are unsure of access, please do check and ask us first).

Early Childhood and Education Studies

• Action for Children
• Aga Khan Foundation
• The Access Project
• Barnados
• British Education Studies Assocation
• Childhood Trust - focuses on child poverty in London
• Children's Commissioner
• Children's Literacy Charity
• The Children's Society
• Coram Children's Legal Centre
• Coram Family and Childcare
• Create
• Department for Education
• Early Education - The British Association for Early Childhood Education
• Early Years Alliance
• Education Endowment Foundation
• Education Policy Institute
• Foundations
• National Children's Bureau
• NSPCC
• Nuffield Foundation research publications
• OECD Early childhood and schools
• OECD Early childhood education and care
• Joseph Rowntree Foundation
• Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years (PACEY)
• Rainbow Trust - supporting families with children with life-threatening or terminal illness
• Save the Children
• Social Enterprise UK
• The Sutton Trust
• UNICEF
• Working Families

Special Education

• Beyond Autism
• British Dyslexia Association
• British Institute of Learning Disabilities (BILD)
• Disability Rights UK
• Dyspraxia Foundation
• European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education
• KIDS
• MENCAP
• MIND
• National Assocation for Special Needs (NASEN) - access link NASEN journals via UEL Library Search
• National Association for Special Schools
• National Autistic Society
• National Deaf Children's Society
• RNID National Hearing Loss charity
• SCOPE
• SENSE
• Speech and Language UK
• The Curly Hair Project

More links to associations, organisations, charities and statistics can be found at https://libguides.uel.ac.uk/socialandcommunitywork/statistics

Statistics

Here is a list of example websites where you can find statistics on a number of topics.

• Census A count of all people and households in the UK, this survey is taken every 10 years.
• Eurostat
• Gov.UK​ Research and statistics from the UK Government.
• Department for Education: Childcare and Early Years
• HESA Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) are the designated data body for England.
• London Datastore Thousands of statistics relating to London
• London area profiles via London Datastore Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) are the designated data body for England.

• Newham Information

• NHS England statistics

• NOMIS Official Labour market statistics
• OECD - Education Global education information from the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD).

• Office for National Statistics

• Office for National Statistics - Education and Childcare Early years childcare, school and college education, and higher education and adult learning, including qualifications, personnel, and safety and well-being.

• Office for Students (OFS) data and analysis

• Police.UK performance

• Statistics at Department for Education Official statistics on education and children from the Department for Education.

• Tower Hamlets borough statistics

• World Health Organization (WHO)

• [Archived content] Office for National Statistics: Children, education and skills

  Information and publications from the Office for National Statistics up until January 2016.