It has been revealed that in one primary school in Bradford just 26 out of 700 pupils speak English as their first language; 93.6% of schoolchildren use another language as their mother tongue.
This revelation comes as new figures show that just 57% of children in the Bradford area speak English as their first language. These figures also show that there are at least 140 different languages spoken in the city, while about 23,000 out of 54,146 youngsters use foreign dialects.
Only London, Slough, Luton and Leicester have higher proportions of non-speaking English children.
Meanwhile, according to the United Nations’ drugs chief, areas of Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham have become ‘no-go’ areas where the law is losing the battle against drug traffickers and organised crime.
Professor Hamid Ghodse, the president of the UN’s International Narcotics Control Board is quoted as saying that these three cities are trapped in “a vicious cycle of social exclusion and drugs problems and fractured communities.”
The UN report also says ‘where migrating social groups have travelled from areas associated with illicit drug production and drug abuse, there is a greater likelihood of individuals engaging in forms of drug misuse as a way of coping with such a sense of dislocation.’
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