3 June 2024
The annual "What Kids Are Reading Report" has shown a drop of 4.4% in the number of books being read by children with "reading decline particularly acute in secondary schools".
For the last 16 years, the report has tracked the book-reading habits of the nation's pupils, and this is the first time, outside of the first year of the pandemic, there has been a decline in the number of books read since research began in 2008.