More than 770,000 UK children ‘don’t have any books of their own’
Children without books are 15 times less likely to be good readers than their book-owning peers, research shows.
More than 750,000 UK schoolchildren do not have a single book of their own, a new survey suggests.
These children are four times more likely than their book-owning peers to be below the expected standard in reading for their age.
The National Literacy Trust surveyed more than 42,000 children between the ages of 8 and 18. It found that 9.4 per cent did not have any books of their own at home.
Extrapolating these figures out to all children in the country between these ages, this would equate to 770,139 children nationally who did not own any books.
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