Nursery World - Early Intervention: Opportunity Areas: North Yorkshire

North Yorks’ intervention programmes tackling language and communication, in settings and the community, before and mid-lockdown. By Charlotte Goddard

With travel restricted, many of us are dreaming of visiting beautiful seaside towns such as Whitby in North Yorkshire. But the North Yorkshire coast, with its picturesque harbours and windswept beaches, is not the best place for disadvantaged children to grow up. In 2016, the region ranked 312 out of 324 districts on the Government’s social mobility index.

Only 64 per cent of children from this area reached a good level of development at the end of the Early Years Foundation Stage, compared with 70 per cent across North Yorkshire as a whole. Disadvantaged children performed particularly badly in the core skills of reading and numbers.

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