Acknowledgements
We would like to thank all members of the WBL team and also Sue Stone (DfES)
for helpful comments and suggestions. The report has also benefited from
comments during presentations to the WBL Family Strand Advisory Panel
(January 2004), at the Thomas Coram Research Unit (March 2004), a DfES
Advisory Panel on research in early years and schools (March 2004), a WBL
seminar at the Institute of Education (April 2004), and at the DfES (May 2004).
We are also grateful to Pamela Davis-Kean and Katherine Magnusson for their
advice. Simon Hayhoe provided helpful information and discussion in earlier
versions of the work. We would also like to thank Ceri Hollywell for her
administrative assistance in the preparation of this report.
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