The Department for Education's Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Profile results show that 71.8 per cent of children achieved a good level of development in 2019.
This is a slight increase of 0.3 of a percentage point on last year's figure of 71.5 per cent but the rise is at a slower rate than the 0.8 percentage point increase between 2018 and 2017.
Meanwhile, the inequality gap between the lowest attaining fifth of children and their peers has grown for the third year in a row and at a faster rate than the previous two years.
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