theclpe.bsky.social
The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) is an independent, UK based charity that creates and delivers award-winning literacy training and resources for the teachers of early years and primary school children.
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And thank you to Habiba Nabisubi for allowing us to reproduce her brilliant illustrations in this year’s report.
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Thank you to ACE for their continued support in funding this research & to our wonderful steering group Darren Chetty, @drmrb.bsky.social, Karen Sands-O'Connor,Dr Zaahida Nabagereka, Prof.Vini Lander, Letterbox Library, Nicky Parker & Louise Johns Shepherd for their invaluable support of this work.
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This year’s report calls for renewed commitment from the publishing industry in improving the volume and quality of inclusive output, alongside a review of practices and investment.
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Picturebooks continue to have the highest proportion of presence across the three text types. This cycle has seen a slight increase with 55% of picturebook titles published in 2023 featuring characters from racially minoritised backgrounds within their casts (52% in 2022).
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This is echoed in the presence reported in non-fiction - down from 30% in 2022 to 22% in 2023. This marks the second drop in a row after a sustained increase in the first five reports.
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Minoritised presence in fiction is down year on year - from 24% in 2022 to 11% in 2023. Fiction is the text type which has seen much slower growth than non-fiction and picturebooks and these figures represent a significant widening of the gap.
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The report shows the number of racially minoritised main characters has dropped by half to 7% in 2023, compared to 14% in 2022.
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For the first time in its history, the annual CLPE #ReflectingRealities survey, funded by Arts Council England, reports an overall drop in the percentage of racially minoritised characters featured in published children’s books reviewed – from 30% in 2022 to 17% in 2023
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The @theclpe.bsky.social also recently published a handbook for teachers which “teaches us and highlights how engagement with inclusive literature positively impacts school reading cultures and wider teaching and learning”. Deets here: clpe.org.uk/research/rep...