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The bar to achieving functional literacy is being raised all the time.
Estyn issued a set of seven recommendations to tackle the problems, including raising standards in all key stages and to make sure that all learners who can do so achieve functional literacy by the end of key stage 2. In response, Anglesey council said it would do all it could to improve its education services.
By that time, the former government had set its sights higher, with the 2006 Leitch review – Prosperity for all in the global economy – setting a new objective for 95% of adults to achieve the basic skills of functional literacy and numeracy by 2020.
People with low functional literacy are less likely to achieve high health literacy however it is measured, not least because of the heavy reliance on written information across healthcare services.
The only way to reach such a goal is to redefine "proficiency" to mean functional literacy.
To develop OT-based assessments and interventions in functional literacy.
Whatever the trend, though, the term functional literacy has gone out of fashion.
But a good education is about more than functional literacy and numeracy or a smattering of science and languages.
More than nine-tenths of the population is literate, though functional literacy is probably lower.
The chief justice has concerns about the "functional literacy" of the remaining pool.
In contrast, functional literacy skills are steadily increasing, with 57% of working-age adults gaining the equivalent level.
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