Evidence-linked resources for the people preparing children for school: what the EYFS framework says real play builds, the new statutory rules on phones, and free tools you can put in front of parents. Written in a practitioner register, every claim sourced to a primary document.
Because the conversation about screens and small children happens in two rooms at once. Parents make the home decisions; practitioners, teachers and childminders make the setting decisions and, at parents' evenings up and down the country, end up fielding the home questions too. The evidence base is the same for both rooms, but the register is different: this section cites the statutory frameworks and the primary research directly, footnote style, and stays descriptive on policy rather than campaigning.
Everything here is free to use, link, quote or print for parent communication. No sign-up, no watermark, no permission needed. If you use something and it lands well, we would genuinely like to hear about it via the contact route on the press page.
Two clusters on the wider site earn their place in a setting. The Games Compendium holds full rules for twenty classic games, each with adaptations for under-5s: a ready-made bank of five-minute settling activities, wet-play options and turn-taking practice. And the Expert Library gives you fifty short, fully sourced articles on the researchers behind the evidence, useful when a claim in a newsletter needs a citation rather than a vibe.
Both are free to copy, adapt and send as your own in any setting. Every page on this site also prints cleanly and may be reproduced for non-commercial use.
Every factual claim in this section traces to a primary source: the EYFS statutory framework, DfE guidance, WHO or CMO publications, or the named study itself. Where a source is paywalled we link the official record rather than paraphrase a paraphrase, and where evidence is mixed we say so. If you find a claim that fails that standard, tell us and we will fix it or cut it.
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