Key initiatives supporting parents and families

National initiatives Language and Play (Wales) On Track (crime prevention) PEEP The Pre-school Learning Alliance Share (Community Education Development Centre) Skills for Families Storysacks Step in to Learning Sure Start Overview of approaches to family literacy Overview of approaches to working with parents and young children Case study: Tendring Technology College, Essex National Reading Campaign information on working with parents Reading initiatives - prison Involving parents in creating a reading culture in schools Articles from Literacy Today

Large-scale local initiatives Birmingham Core Skills Partnership FAST LANE (Extended Learning Service, Kirklees) PACT (Parents and Children Together, County Durham) Read On - Write Away! (Derbyshire) The Raising Early Achievement in Literacy (REAL) Project - Sheffield Rochdale family literacy programmes Write to Read, Stockton