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Achievement factors are profiled
15 Jan 2009
The Millennium Cohort Study is an ongoing survey of 19,000 children in the UK. The latest findings of the study centre on factors connected with children's cognitive abilities and behaviour at age five and on children in the bottom 20%.
The report recommended the Government target policies at ethnic minority groups, families on low incomes and those living in social housing to “potentially” raise children's achievement level. It said: "Encouraging parents to read to their children every day and value the importance of stimulation is likely to improve achievement, but again this would have less effect on protecting children from ending up in the bottom 20%. To help these children the report recommended policies aimed at mothers who suffer from depression, mothers who are poorly educated, boys, younger children and low birth-weight babies.
Child Development in the First Three Sweeps of the Millennium Cohort Study can be found at www.dcsf.gov.uk.
(Nursery World, 15 January 2009)
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