Communities and local areas
Poor literacy skills are part of a vicious cycle of factors that lead to disadvantage. The National Literacy Trust works with communities and local areas to build a strategic and embedded commitment to literacy across local authority services and other local agencies. Our work focuses on families, helps local areas to target support to those with the greatest need, and develops the capacity of communities to improve literacy levels and life chances.
Work with usInvolve a greater range of services and partner organisations to improve early language and literacy levels by working with us. We will work with you to develop a local literacy strategy and an evaluation framework to capture the impact your strategy makes.
Why does your area need a strategic approach to literacy?
Our approach will help you to join up delivery of services and extend literacy support to more families by engaging a wider range of partners. Find out more about how low literacy affects communities and how our framework can help to increase literacy levels and improve life chances.
Breaking the Cycle: Aspirations, literacy and the home
This key event, exploring the role of low literacy in child poverty, was held on 11th October 2011 with Rt Hon Frank Field MP as the keynote speaker. Read a report of the day here
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Our online Local Partnerships Zone provides free access to resources, guidance and case studies to anyone developing a community-wide, strategic approach to literacy. Register now or discover the benefits.
If you're already a member you can go directly to the zone here.
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Read the final report of the Partners in Literacy pilot, a route map of a new approach to raising literacy levels.
Click hereRead a report of this National Literacy Trust conference, opened by Frank Field MP.
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