By KATE LOVEYS
Last updated at 10:57 PM on 28th November 2010
Children who speak English as their first language are in a minority in a rapidly growing number of schools, figures reveal.
The surge has been most pronounced in London, where in some boroughs youngsters with a different mother tongue make up nearly 80 per cent of primary pupils.
However it is not confined to the capital. In Birmingham, Bradford and Leicester more than 40 per cent of pupils across all primary schools do not count English as their first language. Nationally, English is a foreign tongue to nearly one in six youngsters in primary schools.
Classroom: Figures have revealed that children who speak English as their first language are in a minority in inner-city London schools (posed stock photograph)
The figures, to be published this week, have almost doubled during the past decade and are projected to increase to 23 per cent – 830,000 out of 3.5million – by 2018.
There are concerns that the increases will place school finances under strain as a growing number of youngsters require help with English.
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