This report presents second year information about the degree to which children and young people in Middlesbrough enjoy reading and writing, how often then engage in reading and writing, what types of materials they read and write and how they feel about reading and writing. It also outlines information about their confidence in their own communication skills and how they feel about communication skills generally. To contextualise the information about children and young people's literacy in Middlesbrough, their responses are compared with data from the year before and with findings from a wider national survey that was conducted in November/December 2013 with 29,420 children and young people aged 8 to 16.