A further 800,000 children will be plunged into poverty as a result of the government’s austerity policies, a report has warned. The Mirror reports that a study by Oxfam found that George Osborne’s cuts and tax rises are “massively increasing” inequality in the UK. It found that by 2020 there will an additional 800,000 children - up from 2.3 million at present - living below the breadline.
Children who read for pleasure are likely to do better in maths and English researchers have found. The BBC reports that a study by the Institute of Education found that reading for pleasure was more important to a child's development than how educated their parents were. The reading habits of 6,000 children were examined for the study.
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