The longterm aspiration is that this approach will increase the numbers of families promoting reading, writing, speaking, listening and early language development in the home. FRM will pilot the difference that a coordinated approach to supporting literacy in the home can make at a local authority level. A local authority strategic coordinator will be funded in each pilot authority to support the development of this approach.
Literacy can change lives. Low literacy rates are associated with social exclusion, poor health, low educational attainment, offending, unemployment and lack of access to training and skills. Literacy is therefore a matter of concern for a range of government departments and local authority directorates.
FRM can help reduce social exclusion by supporting individuals and communities to become more literate, therefore fulfilling their, and the nation's, potential.
More about the FRM approach
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