Case studies: Projects for children in care

Family Reading Matters
A strategy to support literacy in the home

Local authority policy

Family Reading Matters is delivered by the NLT on behalf of the DCSF

Bolton Literacy Trust - promoting reading through family learning activities
READ.WRITE.inspire, Peterborough - encouraging foster carers to share books regularly with children
Reading Roadshows for carers - National Literacy Association events to inspire carers to read with children
Right to Read, Knowsley - training for foster carers, in conjunction with libraries

More information on children in care from the NLT site

Free resource on
developing a
borough-wide
approach to
family reading

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