Children and Young People: Literacy Debate

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Thursday 23rd January 2025

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My Lords, I speak as a teacher and—

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And the noble Lord will be marking my homework later.

The National Literacy Trust says that one in seven primary schools in the UK does not have a library, and in London it is one in four. It has a ready-made Libraries for Primaries campaign set up with Penguin. Will the Government think about sorting this out now?

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