In addition, rising child poverty in the UK increases the risk of the attainment gap growing between children living in poor areas and their wealthier peers.
Finland has developed a solution to improving reading skills that sees volunteer grandparents recruited to support students struggling with reading. The approach is being used in more than 60 schools and is being shown to improve reading literacy levels.
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Children in Finland typically start school at the age of seven. Starting school later than is common in many other Western countries does not appear to hold Finnish children back when it comes to attainment - the OECD's 2016 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) results place 15-year-olds from Finland second among 28 European countries for reading literacy and fourth among the 73 countries assessed worldwide.
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