Charity demands funding for education of poorest children

A database of primary school pupils must be set up to track up to 1,000 young people who fail to progress to secondary school, a children’s charity demanded today.

In Barnardo’s Budget 2007 recommendations launched to mark the United Nations Day for the Eradication of Poverty, the charity called for action as it highlighted one in three children in disadvantaged areas cannot read or write to appropriate standards.