Case studies: Prisons

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

Case studies: Prisons

Action For Prisoners' Families storybook series - books exploring issues faced by children with a prisoner in the family
Exploring new territory, HMP Birmingham - how a Got Kids? Get Reading! project helped the library and education department get men reading with their children
The East Riding of Yorkshire's adult education - family learning service - family ESOL and prison-based Keeping Up with the Children courses
Once Upon a Time, HMP Leeds - a project enabling dads to record a storybook for their children
Reading dads at HMP Blantyre House - a project supporting dads in becoming reading role models

More information on prisons and literacy from the NLT site

Useful ideas and case studies from Prison Reading Champions

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

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