Supporting the home learning environment
The home learning environment plays a central role in shaping children’s early communication, social development and long-term learning.
It is the quality of the home learning environment that has the most significant impact on children’s speech, language, and communication skills and their social-emotional development. We all have a part to play.
National guidance:
Download our national home learning environment (HLE) guidance commissioned by the Department for Education.
Embedding the home learning environment: evidence, practice and partnerships.
The document brings together the best available evidence and practical insight to support those working with families to strengthen the home learning environment. It focuses on what works, why it matters and how local partners can create the conditions for families to feel confident, supported and able to embed early learning in everyday life.