Blogs

Our blogs are written by various NLT staff on a wide range of literacy issues. We welcome your ideas and feedback, so please add your comments.

If you have any suggestions for blog topics that you would like to see our staff discuss please email us.

Policy blog posts:

• 10Jan2012
  New year musings on the new National Curriculum

  Deputy Director, Abigail Moss shares her thoughts on the paper published by the Expert Panel for the National Curriculum Review.

  Posted by Abigail Moss | 0 Comments

• 05Dec2011
  Could do better: latest overview of adult literacy in the UK

  National Literacy Trust Director Jonathan Douglas discusses the findings of the new 2011 Skills for Life Survey and the challenges it presents to the literacy sector.

  Posted by Jonathan Douglas | 0 Comments

• 08Nov2011
  New political group to focus on literacy

  The new All Party Parliamentary Group for Literacy will look at issues including boys and literacy and volunteering to support literacy.

  Posted by Jonathan Douglas | 0 Comments

• 16May2011
  The time is now: get literacy on the agenda of your child poverty partnership

  Local councils want more guidance on reducing child poverty, according to the Local Government (LG) Group. Is now the moment to push for literacy to be a priority in strategies to combat child poverty?

  Posted by Emily McCoy | 1 Comment

• 05May2011
  Literacy in the Big Society

  Our Director Jonathan Douglas looks at the latest governmental reforms to education and discusses what the Big Society will mean for charities, local services and literacy.

  Posted by Jonathan Douglas | 1 Comment

• 15Apr2011
  Can literacy help us shape the future in Sheffield?

  Dr Sonia Sharp, Executive Director of Children’s Services in Sheffield, explains how the council is securing the building blocks for individual success and community prosperity by embedding literacy as a priority for the future.

  Posted by Sonia Sharp | 1 Comment

• 07Apr2011
  Social Mobility and Child Poverty

  Our Policy Adviser George Dugdale blogs on the two latest Government policy strategies on child poverty and social mobility.

  Posted by George Dugdale | 1 Comment

• 21Jan2011
  Removing Barriers to Literacy

  Ofsted's latest report has highlighted important mechanisms for ensuring success in literacy

  Posted by George Dugdale | 0 Comments

• 17Dec2010
  National Literacy Trust response to Radio 4's Today programme story on literacy results in schools

  Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove appeared on the Today programme talking about the most recent Key Stage 2 results for literacy. Here's the National Literacy Trust's response to the story.

  Posted by George Dugdale | 0 Comments

• 07Dec2010
  UK schools slip in PISA rankings

  The latest results from the OECD’s assessment of the literacy, maths and science levels of 15-year-olds in education systems across the world have been released today, and the UK has slipped down the rankings.

  Posted by George Dugdale | 1 Comment