Claim: Just 10% of children's books in the UK in 2019 had at least one character from a Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic background.
Fact-check: A survey of diversity in children's books is flawed - Full Fact
Verdict: this figure comes from flawed research and is not reliable. it's also important to consider that many books in the survey did not have human characters.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Leo Benedictus
Date published: 2021-09-07T00:00:00