Research and policy

Your research reports are relevant, succinct and readable. They enable me to keep up-to-date with literacy trends without having to trawl through pages of documentation.
Barbara Band, LRC Manager, The Emmbrook School, Wokingham

Understanding the implications that research and policy have on practice is key. Below is a bank of articles which will inform and provoke thought regarding literacy practice in schools.

TTYB policy other policies:

• 22Mar2007
  Policy: Every Parent Matters

  Extracts from the Government's Every Parent Matters policy paper

• 01Mar2007
  Policy: Early Years Foundation Stage (birth – five)

  Details on the Early Years Foundation Stage

• 01Nov2006
  Policy: Children's centres practice guidance

  Details on the government guidance for Children's centres

• 30Sep2005
  Policy: the Children's National service framework (NSF)

  A 10-year programme intended to stimulate long-term and sustained improvement in children's health.

• 01Jul2005
  Policy: Early education and children's outcomes - how long do the impacts last? A study of a cohort of children born in 1958.

  The aim of this report was to shed light on the question of how effective early pre-school and schooling is for improving the well-being of children, and whether any impacts are likely to be long-lasting.

• 23Feb2004
  Policy: the children's national service framework

  A 10-year programme intended to stimulate long-term and sustained improvement in children's health.

• 13Feb2004
  Policy: Sure Start

  A summary article on Surestart, their aims and a timeline showing their history and development

• 22May2003
  Policy: Every Child Matters

  Details of the Government green paper outlining the Every Child Matters scheme.

• 23Feb2001
  Policy: Bookstart

  A summary article on Bookstart, it's history and funders.