Case studies: Health

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

Bookstart - nationwide book gifting programme working with libraries and health services to reach very young children
Sure Start Myatt's Field Angell Town, Lambeth, London - literacy development together with health workers, libraries and a hostel for teenage mums

More information on health and literacy from the NLT site

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

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