The fifth annual National Literacy Trust research report into young people’s reading habits, carried out in November and December but published last month, has recorded an overall increase in those who say they enjoy reading.
However, the research report warns that this rise hides an increasingly wide gender gap in both reading for pleasure and reading outside the classroom.
Also, the research reveals that one in four children think their parents do not care if they read or not – this figure rises to a third for children on free school meals.
Overall, the survey found that 54.4 per cent of the young people say they enjoy reading very much or quite a lot – the highest proportion since the study first began.
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