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Primary school intervention programmes announced

Plans to introduce primary school intervention programmes have been announced by the Every Child a Chance Trust, following a new report that suggests children who have poor numeracy skills are more likely to grow up to be unemployed, claim more benefits and pay less tax.

The report by accountants KPMG argues that children who are bad at mathswill cost the taxpayer up to 2.4bn a year. The Trust is askingfor 6m from businesses for projects that will provide individualtuition sessions for struggling seven-year-olds and wants local businessto make annual contributions of 12,000 each for three years toschools in their area.

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