5.1million people in England don't have the reading and writing skills expected of an 11-year-old. This means that they will be held back at every stage of their life: as a child they won't be able to ...
A school has been taking in pupils as young as two to try to stave off childhood literacy problems before they start. St Andrew's CE Primary School in Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, is running the ...
The vast majority of England's constituencies have “serious literacy issues”, according to charity The National Literacy Trust (NLT), following new analysis carried out by the NLT and credit ...
The National Literacy Trust's Emily McCoy explains the steps youth workers can take to help young people who struggle with reading. How many young people have literacy problems? One in six young ...
Children who grow up in areas that have the greatest literacy challenges are also likely to live much shorter lives than their peers, a study suggests. It argues that there is a “staggering” gap in ...
A lack of “high-quality” apprenticeships is exacerbating literacy and numeracy problems in UK and creating an unskilled workforce Credit: Photo: GETTY A lack of “high-quality” apprenticeships is ...
Hedgehog and her Hoglet was produced by a team of parents in Salford Each year across Greater Manchester, two out of every five children are defined as being "not school ready" when they're assessed ...
One in three adults aged over 65 in England have difficulty understanding basic health-related information, suggests astudy in the BMJ, external. They are more than twice as likely to die within five ...
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