#nationalwritingday Our recent research in to Children and young people’s writing in 2024 found that:
Fewer than 3 in 10 (28.7%) children and young people aged 8 to 18 say they enjoy writing in their free time - the lowest levels we’ve recorded.
Only 1 in 9 (11.1%) children and young people told us that they wrote something daily in their free time, halving from last year.
Of those who write in their free time once a month, 3 in 5 (59.1%) say they write to be creative, while half write to express their ideas and imagination (52.8%) or their thoughts and feelings (47.7%).
Interestingly, while children’s enjoyment of writing at home is in decline, the opposite is true for their enjoyment of writing at school. More than half (53.6%) of children and young people enjoy the writing they do at school, a 22% uplift in the past year.