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• Communities and local areas  Joined up services in Derbyshire: an impact case study
  This case study provides an example of the impact of partnership working across services for one family attending a community centre. 26 May 2011
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• Communities and local areas  Local authorities improving life chances: A review of a new approach to raising literacy levels
  This report of the Partners in Literacy pilot project, run by the National Literacy Trust from 2009 to 2011, offers a route map to all who are committed to addressing the increasingly urgent issue of low literacy, through the most powerful approach of wor 16 May 2011
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• Communities and local areas  Our work with communities and local areas
  This overview describes how low literacy levels affect communities and how a strategic community-wide strategy can help to increase literacy levels and improve life chances. 22 Feb 2011
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• Communities and local areas  Reading is good for you
  This resource, produced in 2009, outlines how literacy relates to health priorities. 30 Mar 2011
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• Communities and local areas  Supporting looked-after children in Lambeth: an impact case study (Jonas)
  This short case study demonstrates the impact of successful literacy provision on looked-after children. 24 May 2011
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• Communities and local areas  Supporting looked-after children in Lambeth: an impact case study (Miguel)
  This short case study demonstrates the impact of successful literacy provision on looked-after children. 24 May 2011
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• Communities and local areas  Supporting refugees and asylum seekers in Lambeth: an impact case study
  This short case study demonstrates the impact of successful literacy provision for refugee and asylum seeker families. 24 May 2011
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• Communities and local areas  Supporting victims of domestic violence in Lambeth: an impact case study
  This short case study demonstrates the impact of a strategic approach to literacy and partnership working for victims of domestic violence. 24 May 2011
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• National Literacy Trust  A research review: the importance of families and the home environment
  This paper looks in detail at the range of research underpinning the National Literacy Trust’s work with communities and local areas to embed a strategic approach to literacy. It evidences key findings around the importance of families, the home environme 29 Mar 2011
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• National Literacy Trust  A snapshot of local support for literacy: 2009 survey
  This report of a survey carried out in 2009 across 13 local authorities. It gives a snapshot of the barriers and opportunities to supporting family literacy across services and partners at a local level. 29 Mar 2011
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