The Key’s 2016 State of Education Report shed new light on the scale of the task faced by schools, revealing that almost 200,000 children are not “school-ready” when starting in primary settings.
Furthermore, the report, which is based on the views of more than 1,100 school leaders, explains that a proportion of pupils are below the expected level on first arrival in more than nine in 10 primary and secondary schools.
When we asked primary school leaders what is holding these children back, their view was unanimous: lack of social skills, delayed speech and poor self-help skills.
And the problem is most pressing for school leaders in the North of England: those in the North West reported the highest levels of pupil unpreparedness, followed closely by Yorkshire and Humberside, the North East and then London.
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