The Nursery World UK – Catherine Gaunt 
“More than half of the parents (55 per cent) surveyed for the National Literacy Trust’s annual parents’ survey said they had the most influence on their child’s early literacy skills, but around a quarter (24 per cent) thought it was the early years practitioners who worked with their child who were more influential in this way. The survey of 1,000 parents commissioned by the Trust and carried out by YouGov found that while 71 per cent of mothers thought they had the most influence on their child’s developing literacy, just 36 per cent of fathers felt this way.(more)