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Fears children born during lockdown are years behind as they start at school
Covid’s world of masks and remote health visits has created a generation at risk of social and emotional difficulties
Louisa Reeves, director of policy and evidence at the charity Speech and Language UK, said that, while most babies would get up and walk without parents practising with them, learning to talk and interact required more engagement. It helps parents who may be juggling shift jobs, facing mental health problems, or struggling to put food on the table and pay bills, to develop good habits with their young children. Julian Grenier, who works on early years teaching at the Education Endowment Foundation, said confronting these issues was vital, because disadvantaged children were already, on average, 4.5 months behind by the end of reception class.
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