Submitted by Lucy Clare Hawker on Wednesday 26th March 2025
Published on Wednesday 30th April 2025
Current status: Closed
Closed: Thursday 30th October 2025
Signatures: 18
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2024 ~ Child ~ Create ~ level ~ National Curriculum ~ Reading ~ The National ~ trust
Make reading a separate subject on the national curriculum
This could create a lesson where a child reads a book for a set amount of time.
Because according to the National Literacy Trust in 2024, only 1 in 5 (20.5%) 8- to 18-year-olds said they read something daily in their free time in 2024, the lowest level since 2005, with daily reading levels decreasing by 7.5 percentage points in the last year alone.
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