The Millennium Cohort Study is following the lives of these children and their families, many of whom live in areas of child poverty with high ethnic minority populations. The latest findings were published in December by the Department for Children, Schools and Families. They reveal that for all cognitive tests, children with Pakistani and Bangladeshi mothers achieved lower scores than white children.
Kirstine Hansen, who is research director of the Millennium Cohort Study, said: "There are larger gaps between the cognitive achievements of children with different ethnic backgrounds at age three, but these are reduced by age five. However, there remains a gap between white children and children with Pakistani and Bangladeshi mothers."
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