The Department for Education’s follow-up to its childcare and early years survey of parents 2018, shows that overall 61 per cent of 0- to five-year-olds used a learning and development app once a week.
Some 18 per cent of children used an app once a day, the survey of more than 5,000 parents shows.
The use of learning and development apps daily was more frequent among children living in the most deprived areas in England with 29 per cent of children living in the most deprived quintile doing so compared with just eight per cent in the least deprived quintile.
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