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Sir Keir StarmerLabour PartyEducation

75% of five-year-olds ready for school

“Giving children the best start in life, with a record 75% of five-year-olds in England ready to learn when they start school.”

In planPress release on the Plan for Change milestones (Prime Minister's Office), 5 Dec 2024Quote checked word for word at its source on 20 October 2026
  2. In plan

Where it stands

The Department for Education's strategy Giving every child the best start in life (7 July 2025) sets the measure: by 2028, 75% of children reaching a good level of development by the end of reception. In 2024/25, 68.3% did (Early years foundation stage profile results, 27 November 2025). The deadline is taken as the end of 2028, so the results for children finishing reception in summer 2028 settle it. The card moves when the strategy's money is allocated or its new services are running.

What has happened

  1. Dec 2024The Prime Minister sets 75% of five-year-olds ready to learn as a Plan for Change milestone, Promised
  2. Jul 2025The Department for Education's best start in life strategy aims for 75% at a good level of development by 2028, In plan evidence
  3. Dec 202875% of children due to be ready to learn when they start school (editorial date, end of 2028), Deadline

About the cost

No cost was given with the milestone.

More detail

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