Save the Children found boys are twice as likely as girls to be trailing by the time they start school, with a lack of basic language skills being key to the problem.
The charity reports that ‘a whole generation of boys is being failed’ and claims a ‘silver bullet’ would be to invest in a high-quality early years workforce, beginning in the poorest areas.
The global children’s organisation says that without a change of course, nearly one million boys are at risk of falling behind over the coming decade.
In its report, ‘The lost boys: How boys are falling behind in their early years’, the charity highlights how last year alone, ‘80,000 boys in England started reception class struggling to speak a full sentence or follow simple instructions’.
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