Children: Reading
Commons · Question 19139 · Tabled 10 Dec 2024 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 16 Dec 2024
Question
Asked by Andrew Cooper
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential implications for its policies of the National Literacy Trust's report entitled Children and Young People's Reading in 2024, published in November 2
Answer
Answered by Catherine McKinnell, 16 Dec 2024
High and rising school standards, with excellent foundations in reading, writing and mathematics, are at the heart of the government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity and give every child the best start in life.We know that reading for pl...