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Special report: Millennium Cohort Study - Better off?
Nursery World,
28 June 2007
Children from disadvantaged families have been found to fall behind in development, but can the difference be corrected? Mary Evans reports. Children from disadvantaged backgrounds can lag up to 12 months behind their more privileged peers in cognitive development by the age of three and be far less ready for school, says a recent a UK-wide study.
The challenge facing Gordon Brown in combating child poverty is underlined by the second survey of the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) tracking nearly 16,000 children born between 2000 and 2002. It shows a gulf by the age of three between the children of...
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