Reading: Parents and Carers
Commons · Question 60800 · Tabled 17 Jun 2025 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 25 Jun 2025
Question
Asked by James MacCleary
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of parents and carers reading to children in the early years on the mental wellbeing of (a) children and (b) parents and carers.
Answer
Answered by Stephen Morgan, 25 Jun 2025
Reading with young children supports not only early literacy but also emotional wellbeing, for both children and their parents or carers. Shared reading helps build secure attachments, supports emotional regulation and creates positive routines that help ...