Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to publish information on the tasks on which children will be assessed under the forthcoming early years baseline assessment; and if he will make a statement.
The department will be working to develop the baseline assessment by trialling it in the 2018/19 academic year. A nationally representative selection of schools will be selected to participate in this trial, which will allow us to evaluate and refine the assessment. We will be consulting key stakeholders throughout this process.