Save the Children calculated the number of children at risk of not reaching a good level of development between 2016 and 2020 by using official population growth predictions to estimate numbers of children attending reception over the four-year period.
To reach the 800,000 figure it then factored in government statistics showing a shortage of 10,000 nursery teachers, and its own research from 2016, which found that children without an early years teacher are almost 10 per cent less likely to meet the expected levels of development when they start school.
It predicts that as many as 200,000 of these children could still be behind by the time they start secondary school, with "potentially devastating consequences for the rest of their schooling".
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