Primary school children and their parents are suffering from "deep anxiety" about modern life, according to a study of education in England.

The Cambridge-based Primary Review’s report said the pressure of Sats tests dominated the last two primary years.

Primary Review director Professor Robin Alexander told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that young children faced a range of pressures.

"What people wanted to talk about was the stress of government tests, then life outside school, road safety, physical dangers, the sense young children are having to grow up too soon."

He also talked about the values children are subjected to, such as consumerism, individualism and materialism.

The report concluded that prospects for the society and world that young children would inherit looked "increasingly perilous".

Children thought Sats tests were "scary", the report said.

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