More from OnTheWeb

The latest issue of the NFER's OnTheWeb service (see previous post for details) contains its usual excellent mixture of links to new research and reports. Here are just some of the highlights:

• Person- or Place-Based Policies to Tackle Disadvantage?: a Joseph Rowntree publication looking at the effectiveness of Labour policies aimed at tackling employment, education, and income disadvantage issues
• Ofsted's annual departmental report is now available online
• Poverty and Child Maltreatment: a research briefing from the NSPCC
• Developing an Effective Response to Neglect and Emotional Harm to Children: another NSPCC document which argues the case for a national strategy for child neglect
• Those Who Can: a report from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) which looks at some of the changes in schools over the last 20 years and the implications for the role of the teacher (follow the link then click on 'Download without registration')
• The Circumstances of Persistently Poor Families with Children: research from the DWP
• Web 2.0 Technologies for Learning: Becta report looking at ICT developments in Key Stages 3 & 4

Finally, I'd like to draw particular attention to A Review of the Evidence on the use of ICT in the Early Years Foundation Stage. This new Becta report is very detailed, and contains plenty of information that should be useful and relevant for many of our students.