The Early Years Foundation Stage Profile results for England, published today by the Department for Education, show that at a national level 70.7 per cent of children achieved a good level of development in 2017, up from 69.3 per cent in 2016 - an increase of 1.4 percentage points.
Girls continue to do better than boys in all the early learning goals. The figures show that 76.5 per cent of girls achieved at least the expected level in all early learning goals (ELGs), compared to 61.8 per cent of boys.
However, the figures show that the gender gap has decreased slightly, with the gap for the percentage achieving at least the expected level in all ELGs decreasing from 15.7 percentage points to 14.7 percentage points in 2017.
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