2004

Melhuish, Ted (2004) Child benefits: the importance of investing in quality childcare. Project Report. London: Daycare Trust, London, UK.

Quinn, L. and Hanna, K. and Melhuish, Ted and Siraj-Blatchford, I. and Sylva, K. and Sammons, P. and Taggart, B. (2004) EPPNI case studies. Technical Report. Stranmillis University Press, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Siraj-Blatchford, I. and Taggart, B. and Sylva, K. and Melhuish, Ted and Sammons, P. (2004) Effective pre-school and primary education. Primary Practice 37 , pp. 28-31.

Sylva, K. and Melhuish, Ted and Sammons, P. and Siraj-Blatchford, I. and Taggart, B. (2004) Effective pre-school provision. Project Report. Institute of Education, London, UK.

Sylva, K. and Melhuish, Ted and Sammons, P. and Siraj-Blatchford, I. and Taggart, B. (2004) Findings from pre-school to the end of Key Stage 1. Project Report. DfES, London, UK.

NESS Research Team and Melhuish, Ted (2004) The Impact of Sure Start local programmes on child development and family functioning: report of preliminary findings. Project Report. DfES, London, UK.

Melhuish, Ted (2004) National evaluation of Sure Start: summary. Project Report. DfES, London, UK.

Quinn, L. and Hanna, K. and Melhuish, Ted and Siraj-Blatchford, I. and Sylva, K. and Sammons, P. and Taggart, B. (2004) Pre-school experience and literacy and numeracy development at the end of year 2 of primary school. Technical Report. Stranmillis University Press, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Quinn, L. and Melhuish, Ted and Hanna, K. and Sylva, K. and Sammons, P. and Siraj-Blatchford, I. and Taggart, B. (2004) Pre-school experience and social/behavioural development at the end of year 1 of primary school. Technical Report. Stranmillis University Press, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Quinn, L. and Hanna, K. and Melhuish, Ted and Siraj-Blatchford, I. and Sylva, K. and Sammons, P. and Taggart, B. (2004) Pre-school experience and social/behavioural development at the end of year 2 of primary school. Technical Report. Stranmillis University Press, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Melhuish, Ted and Hanna, K. and Quinn, L. and Sylva, K. and Siraj-Blatchford, I. and Sammons, P. and Taggart, B. (2004) Pre-school experience and social/behavioural development at the end of year 3 of primary school. Technical Report. Stranmillis University Press, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Sammons, P. and Sylva, K. and Melhuish, Ted and Siraj-Blatchford, I. and Taggart, B, and Elliott, K. and Marsh, A. (2004) Report on age 6 assessment. Project Report. Institute of Education, London, UK.

Sammons, P. and Smees, R. and Taggart, B, and Sylva, K. and Melhuish, Ted and Siraj-Blatchford, I. and Elliott, K. (2004) Special educational needs in the early primary years: primary school entry up to the end of year 1. Technical Report. Institute of Education, London, UK.

NESS Research Team and Melhuish, Ted (2004) Towards understanding Sure Start local programmes: summary of findings from the national evaluation. Project Report. DfES, London, UK.

Sylva, K. and Melhuish, Ted and Sammons, P. and Siraj-Blatchford, I. and Taggart, B. and Elliot, K. (2004) Zu den auswirkungen vorschulischer einrichtungen in England. In: Faust, G. and Goetz, M. and Hacker, H. and Rossbach, H.G. (eds.) Anschlussfaehige Bildungsprozesse im Elementar- und Primarbereich. Germany: Klinkhardt, pp. 154-167. ISBN 9783781512658.

Sammons, P. and Sylva, K. and Melhuish, Ted and Siraj-Blatchford, I. and Taggart, B, and Elliott, K. and Marsh, A. (2004) The continuing effects of pre-school education at age 7 years. Technical Report. Institute of Education, London, UK.

Sylva, K. and Melhuish, Ted and Sammons, P. and Siraj-Blatchford, I. and Taggart, B. (2004) The effective provision of pre-school education (EPPE) project: final report. a longitudinal study. Project Report. DfES, London, UK.

Sylva, K. and Melhuish, Ted and Sammons, P. and Siraj-Blatchford, I. and Taggart, B. (2004) The effective provision of pre-school education (EPPE) project: findings from the early primary years. Project Report. DfEs Publications, London, UK.

Siraj-Blatchford, I. and Sylva, K. and Taggart, B. and Melhuish, Ted and Sammons, P. and Elliot, K. (2004) The effective provision of pre-school education project: findings from the pre-school period. Revista Portuguesa de Pedagogia 38 , pp. 203-219. ISSN 0870-418X.

Sammons, P. and Elliot, K. and Sylva, K. and Melhuish, Ted and Siraj-Blatchford, I. and Taggart, B. (2004) The impact of pre-school on young children's cognitive attainments at entry to reception. British Educational Research Journal 30 (5), pp. 691-712. ISSN 0141-1926.

Melhuish, Ted (2004) A literature review of the impact of early years provision upon young children, with emphasis given to children from disadvantaged backgrounds. Project Report. National Audit Office, London, UK.

Anning, A. and Ball, M. and Barnes, J. and Belsky, J. and Botting, B. and Frost, M. and Kurtz, Z. and Leyland, A. and Meadows, P. and Melhuish, Ted and Tunstill, J. (2004) The national evaluation of Sure Start local programmes in England. Child and Adolescent Mental Health 9 (1), pp. 2-8. ISSN 1475-357X.

Sammons, P. and Smees, R. and Taggart, B, and Sylva, K. and Melhuish, Ted and Siraj-Blatchford, I. and Elliott, K. (2004) The parents' perspective. Technical Report. Institute of Education, London, UK.

2005

Melhuish, Ted (2005) Daycare. In: Hopkins, B. and Barr, R.G. and Michel, G.F. and Rochat, P. (eds.) Cambridge Encyclopedia on Child Development. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 309-312. ISBN 9780521651172.

Barnes, J. and Belsky, J. and Broomfield, K. and Dave, S. and Frost, M. and Melhuish, Ted (2005) Disadvantaged but different: variation among deprived communities in relation to child and family well-being. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 46 (9), pp. 952-962. ISSN 0021-9630.

Melhuish, Ted and Barnes, Jacqueline and Belsky, Jay and Leyland, A. (2005) Early impacts of Sure Start local programmes on children and families: report of the cross-sectional study of 9-and 36-month old children and their families. Project Report. DfES Publications, London, UK.

Hanna, K. and Melhuish, Ted and Quinn, L. and Sylva, K. and Siraj-Blatchford, I. and Sammons, P. and Taggart, B. (2005) Identifying and monitoring changes in special educational needs in the early years. Technical Report. Stranmillis University Press, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Sammons, P. and Siraj-Blatchford, I. and Sylva, K. and Melhuish, Ted and Taggart, B. and Elliot, K. (2005) Investigating the effects of pre-school provision: using mixed methods in the EPPE research. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 8 (3), pp. 207-224. ISSN 1364-5579.

Quinn, L. and Melhuish, Ted and Hanna, K. and Sylva, K. and Siraj-Blatchford, I. and Sammons, P. and Taggart, B. and Doyle, A. (2005) Pre-school experience and literacy and numeracy development at the end of key stage 1. Technical Report. Stranmillis University Press, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Tunstill, J. and Allnock, D. and Akhurst, S. and Garbers, C. and NESS Research Team and Melhuish, Ted (2005) Sure Start local programmes: implications of case study data from the National Evaluation of Sure Start. Children and Society 19 (2), pp. 158-171. ISSN 0951-0605.

Melhuish, Ted and Belsky, Jay and Leyland, A. (2005) Variation in sure start local programmes effectiveness: early preliminary finding. Project Report. HMSO, London, UK.

Siraj-Blatchford, I. and Sylva, K. and Taggart, B. and Melhuish, Ted and Sammons, P. (2005) The effective provision of pre-school education project: findings from the pre-school period. In: Hammes-Di Bernardo, E. and Hebenstreit-Mulkler, S. (eds.) Innovationsprojekt Fruhpadagogik. Professionalitat im Verbund von Praxis, Forschung, Aus-und Weiterbildung. Baltmannsweiler, Germany: Schneider Verlag, pp. 72-86. ISBN 9783896769909.

2006

Meadows, P. and Melhuish, Ted and NESS Research Team (2006) Cost effectiveness in implementing SSLPs. Project Report. HMSO, london, UK.

Melhuish, Ted and Petrogiannis, K., eds. (2006) Early childhood care and education: international perspectives on policy and research. London, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415383691.

Taggart, B. and Sammons, P. and Smees, R. and Sylva, K. and Melhuish, Ted and Siraj-Blatchford, I. and Elliot, K. and Lunt, I. (2006) Early identification of special educational needs and the definition of 'at risk': the early years transition and special educational needs (EYTSEN) project. British Journal of Special Education 33 (1), pp. 40-46. ISSN 1467-8578.

Melhuish, Ted (2006) Early years childcare research in the UK. In: Takeuchi, M. and Scott, R. and Benesh, D. and Carlson, N. (eds.) New Directions for Early Childhood Education and Care in the 21st Century: International perspectives. Cedar Falls, Iowa, USA: Martin Quam Press. ISBN 9780978536909.

Siraj-Blatchford, I. and Sammons, P. and Taggart, B. and Sylva, K. and Melhuish, Ted (2006) Educational research and evidence-based policy: the mixed-method approach of the EPPE project. Evaluation and Research in Education 19 (2), pp. 63-82. ISSN 0950-0790.

Melhuish, Ted and Romaniuk, H. and Sammons, P. and Sylva, K. and Siraj-Blatchford, I. and Taggart, B. (2006) Effective pre-school and primary education (EPPE 3-11) project: the effectiveness of primary schools in England in key stage 2 for 2002, 2003 and 2004. Other. Institute of Education.

Sammons, P. and Taggart, B. and Sylva, K. and Melhuish, Ted and Siraj-Blatchford, I. and Barreau, S. and Manni, L. (2006) Effective pre-school and primary education project (EPPE 3-11) variations in teacher and pupil behaviours in year 5 classes. Project Report. DfES, Nottingham, UK.

Sammons, P. and Sylva, K. and Melhuish, Ted and Siraj-Blatchford, I. and Taggart, B. and Grabbe, Y. (2006) Effective pre-school and primary education project (EPPE 3-11): influences upon children's attainment and progress in key stage 2: cognitive outcomes in year 5. Project Report. DfES, Nottingham, UK.

Sammons, P. and Sylva, K. and Melhuish, Ted and Siraj-Blatchford, I. and Taggart, B. and Grabbe, Y. (2006) Effective pre-school and primary education project (EPPE 3-11): influences upon children’s attainment and progress in key stage 2: cognitive outcomes in year 5. Project Report. DfES, Nottingham, UK.

Sammons, P. and Taggart, B. and Sylva, K. and Melhuish, Ted and Siraj-Blatchford, I. and Barreau, S. and Manni, L. (2006) Effective pre-school and primary education project (EPPE 3-11): variations in teacher and pupil behaviours in year 5 classes. Project Report. Institute of Education, London, UK.

Melhuish, Ted and Quinn, L. and Hanna, K. and Sylva, K. and Siraj-Blatchford, I. and Sammons, P. and Taggart, B. (2006) Effective pre-school provision in Northern Ireland. Project Report. Stranmillis University Press, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Belsky, J. and Melhuish, Ted and Barnes, J. and Leyland, A. and Romaniuk, H. (2006) Effects of Sure Start local programmes on children and families: early findings from a quasi-experimental, cross-sectional study. British Medical Journal 332 , pp. 1476-1478. ISSN 1759-2151.

Melhuish, Ted (2006) Evaluating Sure Start. Poverty 123 , pp. 3-4.

Melhuish, Ted (2006) Evaluating a national intervention programme for disadvantaged young children: the evaluation of Sure Start local programmes in England. In: Junger, M. and Tremblay, R. and Koops, W. and Prinsen, B. and Jonkman, H. (eds.) Early interventions to prevent conduct disorders: Opportunities and problems. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Psychology Press.

Melhuish, Ted and Petrogiannis, K. (2006) Introducing international perspectives on early childhood care and education. In: Melhuish, Ted and Petrogiannis, K. (eds.) Early Childhood Care and Education: International perspectives on policy and research. Routledge. ISBN 9780415383691.

Melhuish, Ted (2006) Policy and research on preschool care and education in the UK. In: Melhuish, Ted and Petrogiannis, K. (eds.) Early Childhood Care and Education: International perspectives on policy and research. Routledge. ISBN 9780415383691.

Sylva, K. and Melhuish, Ted and Sammons, P. and Siraj-Blatchford, I. and Taggart, B. (2006) The effective provision of preschool education (EPPE) project. In: van Kuyk, J.J. (ed.) The Quality of Early Childhood Education. Arnhem, The Netherlands: Cito.

Melhuish, Ted and Petrogiannis, K. (2006) An international overview of early childhood care and education. In: Melhuish, Ted and Petrogiannis, K. (eds.) Early Childhood Care and Education: International perspectives on policy and research. Routledge. ISBN 9780415383691.

2007

Sylva, K. and Taggart, B. and Melhuish, Ted and Sammons, P. and Siraj-Blatchford, I. (2007) Changing models of research to inform educational policy. Research Papers in Education 22 (2), pp. 155-168. ISSN 0267-1522.

Sylva, K. and Melhuish, Ted and Sammons, P. and Siraj-Blatchford, I. and Taggart, B. (2007) Effective Pre-school and Primary Education 3-11 Project (EPPE 3-11): Promoting Equality in the Early Years. Project Report. The Equalities Review, London.

Sammons, P. and Sylva, K. and Melhuish, Ted and Siraj-Blatchford, I. and Taggart, B. and Grabbe, Y. and Barreau, S. (2007) Effective pre-school and primary education 3-11 project (EPPE 3-11): effective pre-school and primary education 3-11 project (EPPE 3-11): influences on children's attainment and progress in key stage 2: cognitive outcomes in year 5. Project Report. DfEs Publications, Nottingham, UK.

Sammons, P. and Sylva, K. and Melhuish, Ted and Siraj-Blatchford, I. and Taggart, B. and Barreau, S. (2007) Effective pre-school and primary education 3-11 project (EPPE 3-11): influences on children’s attainment and progress in key stage 2: social/behavioural outcomes in year 5. Project Report. Institute of Education, London, UK.

Sammons, P. and Sylva, K. and Melhuish, Ted and Siraj-Blatchford, I. and Taggart, B. and Grabbe, Y. (2007) Effective pre-school and primary education 3-11 project (EPPE 3-11):influences on children's attainment and progress in key stage 2: cognitive outcomes in year 5. Project Report. Institute of Education, London, UK.

Belsky, J. and Melhuish, Ted (2007) Impact of Sure Start local programmes on children and families. In: Belsky, J. and Barnes, J. and Melhuish, Ted (eds.) The National Evaluation of Sure Start: Does Area-based Early Intervention Work? Bristol, UK: Policy Press, pp. 133-154. ISBN 9781861349491.

Melhuish, Ted (2007) Parenting training improves problem behaviour in children at risk of conduct disorder. Evidence Based Mental Health 10 (4), p. 125. ISSN 1362-0347.

Anning, A. and Ball, M. and Belsky, J. and Melhuish, Ted (2007) Predicting impact in an early years intervention: the design of a tool using qualitative and quantitative approaches. Journal of Children's Services 2 (3), pp. 27-42. ISSN 1746-6660.

Melhuish, Ted and Belsky, J. and Ball, M. and Anning, A. (2007) Programme variation and impact on children and families. In: Belsky, J. and Barnes, J. and Melhuish, Ted (eds.) The National Evaluation of Sure Start: Does Area-based Early Intervention Work? Bristol, UK: Policy Press, pp. 155-172. ISBN 9781861349491.

Sylva, K. and Melhuish, Ted and Sammons, P. and Siraj-Blatchford, I. and Taggart, B. (2007) Promoting equality in the early years. Project Report. The Equalities Review, Cabinet Office, London, UK.

Melhuish, Ted and Hall, D. (2007) The policy background to Sure Start. In: Belsky, J. and Barnes, J. and Melhuish, Ted (eds.) The National Evaluation of Sure Start: Does Area-based Early Intervention Work? Bristol, UK: Policy Press, pp. 3-22. ISBN 9781861349491.

28 February 2017

Barnes, Jacqueline and Melhuish, Ted and Guerra, J.C. and Karwowska-Struczyk, M. and Petrogiannis, K. and Wyslowska, O. and Zachrisson, H.D. (2017) Inter-agency coordination of services for children and families - initial literature review. Project Report. European Union Horizon 2020.

25 July 2023

Ereky-Stevens, K. and Melhuish, Ted and Gardiner, Julian and Barnes, Jacqueline (2023) Individual, family and neighbourhood factors related to life satisfaction and perceived discrimination among low-income, non-immigrant mothers in seven European countries. Journal of Family Studies , ISSN 1322-9400.