The study by the Institute of Education, University of London, found that both low income and the experience of other difficulties in the family are important for child development, but more important are the problems associated with compounding risks.
‘The greater the number of risks experienced by the child, the greater the problems that the child will face during their life,’ the study concludes.
The research is also understood to be the first to analyse in detail the number of risk factors children in minority ethnic families face.
An analysis of 18,000 families with babies under one from the Millennium Cohort Study found that 28 per cent of them faced two or more out of ten risk factors.
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