As per The Times:
"Children are arriving at school unable to say their own names or drink from cups, The Times Education Commission’s final report will reveal this week.
It
will call for a kind of “five-a-day” initiative to encourage parents to
talk to and play with their children, similar to the healthy eating
campaign.
The
year-long inquiry into the state of education in the UK, which heard
evidence from dozens of experts, publishes its final report on
Wednesday. It exposes the inequality within schools and calls for a
laser-like focus on education, particularly in the early years.
A
head teacher from Nottinghamshire said that her school spent little
time on literacy or numeracy in reception because it had to focus on
basic care. Some four and five-year-old children
joined reception class unable to say their own names and having drunk
only from baby bottles. One child was brought to school in a shopping
trolley.
She
told the commission: “We’ve got about 50 per cent of the children in
reception and nursery who are not toilet-trained. We have to employ care
workers just to change nappies. We’ve got children who are still
drinking from bottles with teats when they start school. They are four
years old and their language will include the word ‘bot-bot’, because
that’s their communication for ‘Can I have a drink please?’"
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