Project
Fathers Reading Every Day (Fred)
Funding
£6.50 per child for new books for 360 children in the first year and 309 in the second, from grant-making organisations Shine (Support and Help in Education), the Walcot Foundation and the JJ Charitable Trust
Background
Children who are not read to by their fathers get left behind at school, suggests analysis by Newcastle University for the recently-launched Read On Get On campaign. The research estimates seven-year-olds who are not read to by their dads are more than 13 months behind in language skills by the time they reach 11, compared with those who have been read to daily.
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