EasyPeasy Home Learning content task-force: Supporting families with young children

EasyPeasy请求46,867英镑的匹配资金（已经获得23,000英镑），以支持一个为期3个月的内容工作组，成为在COVID-19危机期间及以后家长和教师的首选早期应用程序。家庭环境对儿童早期发展的影响大于全日制中心托儿。尽管如此，在家学习是一个不发达的市场，对全英国250万0-5岁孩子的父母缺乏支持。由于封锁，优势儿童和弱势儿童之间已经存在的发展差距将进一步扩大，而家庭学习环境中的不平等现象不再能通过中心护理得到缓解。我们非常需要为家庭提供支持、指导和鼓励，以确保他们保持快乐、健康和健康，并在保持社交距离的过程中支持儿童的持续学习和发展。与此同时，学校和托儿所的广泛关闭威胁到早期教育部门的生存，支持生态系统创新和适应远程学习的必要性至关重要。EasyPeasy是一个儿童发展平台，为父母提供活动和指导，将日常育儿压力转化为有趣学习的机会。通过随机对照试验评估，它是同类数字平台中唯一一个被证明对儿童认知发展和父母健康都有影响的平台，在10-18周的使用中，不同文化和社会经济背景的家庭都有明显的好处。EasyPeasy是教育部的合作伙伴，通过政府的“早期社会流动计划”提供了行之有效的影响。除了在2020年第二季度为家长和教师免费提供EasyPeasy之外，通过这个项目，我们将加快平台上新功能的开发，以支持用户生成的内容，并与托儿所、学校和儿童慈善机构合作，调整和数字化他们的项目和课程，以便他们能够继续支持当地社区，并努力实现新的可持续的交付模式。通过“扩展影响”计划的进一步支持将使EasyPeasy能够加快Android上关键产品开发的交付，响应用户需求，并通过增加我们在谷歌Play上的优惠，让我们能够接触到更多的家长。

EasyPeasy requests £46,867 in matched funding (£23k already secured) to support a 3-month content task-force to become the go-to early years app for parents and teachers during the COVID-19 crisis, and beyond.The home environment has a greater influence on children's early development than full time centre-based childcare. Despite this, home learning is an under-developed market and support is lacking for the 2.5 million parents with children aged 0-5 across the UK. Already existing developmental gaps between advantaged and disadvantaged children will widen as a result of lockdown with inequalities in home learning environment no longer mitigated by centre-based care. There is a significant need to provide support, guidance and encouragement to families to ensure they stay happy, healthy, and well, and to support children's ongoing learning and development throughout social distancing. At the same time, widespread school and nursery closures threaten the survival of the early years sector, and the need to support the ecosystem to innovate and adapt to distance learning is paramount.EasyPeasy is a child development platform that offers parents activities and guidance to turn everyday parenting stresses into opportunities for playful learning. It is the only digital platform of its kind with proven impact on both children's cognitive development and parents' wellbeing through Randomised Control Trial evaluation, with observable benefits to families across culture and socio-economic background in 10-18 weeks of use. EasyPeasy is a partner of the Department of Education, delivering proven impact through the government's Early Years Social Mobility Programme.As well as offering free access to EasyPeasy for parents and teachers across Q2 2020, through this project we will accelerate development of new functionality on our platform to support user-generated content, and work with nurseries, schools, and children's charities to adapt and digitise their programmes and curriculum so they can continue supporting their local communities, and work towards new and sustainable delivery models.Further support through the 'Extension for Impact' scheme will allow EasyPeasy to accelerate delivery of key product developments on Android, responding to user needs and allowing us to reach many more parents through increasing our offer on Google Play.