Nursery World - Parents urged to read to their children

Over a quarter of a million children read at home for less than 15 minutes a week, according to new research.

One in seven parents or carers never read their child a bedtime story, according to BookTrust

A report by BookTrust, the UK’s largest children’s reading charity, found that 345,000 primary school children in the UK (14 per cent) receive less than 15 minutes of shared reading a week.

The charity defines a child who is read to or with for pleasure for less than 15 minutes a week outside of school as living in ‘literary poverty’.

A further 17 per cent of UK children are read to or with for less than half an hour a week, while six per cent of children aged between seven and nine are never read to or with at all, the research found.

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