According to a You Gov survey based on a sample of around 900 teachers and staff many children starting school last September were not toilet trained, struggled to socialise with other children, express themselves, or understand basic instructions.
The survey of teaching staff, head teachers and deputy heads working in primary schools in England, found ‘alarming levels’ of pupils being unprepared for school.
Kindred Squared (Kindred2) said that the aim of the research was to start a new national conversation about early years and the key principles of early child development and neuroscience, making the overall point that as a society we need to rethink childcare and teaching at that stage of life.
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