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"publishedAt": "2026-05-15T09:21:17.000Z",
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"textContent": "Children's laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce has called for national action to tackle a growing reading crisis, as new research shows daily shared reading among families with young children has fallen.",
"title": "Children's reading crisis as UK families struggle and shared reading rates plummet by 11%"
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