| Heading: |
Reading: Parents and Carers |
| Question ID: |
1813762 |
| UIN: |
60800 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-17 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5265 |
| Asking Member display name: |
James MacCleary
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| Asking Member handle: |
JamesMacCleary
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@JamesMacCleary
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of parents and carers reading to children in the early years on the mental wellbeing of (a) children and (b) parents and carers. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-25 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4653 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Stephen Morgan
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| Answering Member handle: |
stephenmorganmp
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@stephenmorganmp
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| Answer text: |
Reading with young children supports not only early literacy but also emotional wellbeing, for both children and their parents or carers. Shared reading helps build secure attachments, supports emotional regulation and creates positive routines that help ... |
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| Answering body ID: |
60 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Education |
| Tweeted: |
true |