What sort of measures did you consider?
The DfE already had 20 measures they were thinking of using. Our job was to look at them from a technical and economic perspective and look at what would work, and then get the local authorities' views about how viable they would be and how practical it would be to collect the data.
From an economic perspective, there was evidence linking outcomes the DfE wants with some of the measures - for example, school readiness. We suggested that the take-up of good quality early education would be a good measure for this. Breastfeeding is also a good measure of children's outcomes in later life.
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