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Children's Laureate urges Sir Keir Starmer to address ‘crisis in early reading’

Children’s Laureate and author Frank Cottrell-Boyce has called on the Government to ensure every child has access to books and reading to improve their long-term life chances.
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Speaking at the Reading Rights Summit in Liverpool yesterday (22 January), hosted by BookTrust, he said that he wants to address the ‘invisible privilege and inequality’ of ‘more and more children’ falling further behind from lack of early years reading.

‘Put simply, shared reading is an effective, economic health intervention that should be available to all,’ he told delegates.

‘We need your Government, Sir Keir Starmer, to stand up and give a visible sign that this country values its children….to make sure the transformative gift of reading is shared with every single child.’

Working with BookTrust in the first six months of his tenure, author Cottrell-Boyce said that he has visited ‘lots of early years settings and seen astonishingly brilliant practice’.

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