New findings from children’s reading charity BookTrust highlight the importance of investment in early years reading.
New research from children’s reading charity BookTrust, has found that almost a quarter of parents and carers from low-income backgrounds (23 per cent) are not sharing books with their children before their first birthday. This is despite the majority (95 per cent) seeing reading as an important thing to do.
The research also found that 20 per cent of parents and carers said they don’t read with their child due to lack of time, and 28 per cent said they don’t find reading with their child easy.
BookTrust said that where families are regularly reading and sharing stories together, ‘this reaches its peak when children are between two and four years old, but the frequency of children being read to daily after the age of four drastically reduces and continues to decline throughout childhood’.
