The Early Years Foundation Stage Profile (EYFSP) results, published by the Department for Education, show that 71.5 per cent of children achieved a good level of development in 2018, a 0.8 percentage point increase on 2017. The figure has been improving consistently since 2012 when 51.7 per cent of children achieved a good level of development.
The statistics also show that girls continue to do better than boys in the early years, but the gender gap has decreased.
The gender gap between girls and boys for the percentage of children achieving a good level of development has reduced in each year since 2014 and fell from 13.7 percentage points in 2017 to 13.5 percentage points in 2018.
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