2008

Policy/ Consultation responses

• The Bercow Review [pdf]
• NLT response to the DIUS informal adult learning consultation [pdf]
• Recommendations to the Independent Commission on Social Mobility [pdf] The NLT's response to the commission set up by Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg MP.
• Jim Rose Primary Review: Call for evidence [Word document]
• Lifelong learning and technological change, sponsored by NIACE [Word document]
• Literacy and the Children's Plan [Word document] NLT response to the Children's Plan.
• NLT response to PIRLS report [Word document] Response to the second round of PIRLS, which assessed the literary attitudes and attainment of 10-year-olds in England.

Policy statements

• Literacy under the Conservatives - [pdf] The NLT assesses Conservative Policy on Literacy
• Young people's self perception as readers [Word document] The policy implications of recent NLT research which looks at young people's attitudes to reading.
• The cultural offer for children [Word document] The NLT assess the literacy implications of the Government's cultural offer for children.
• Are literacy targets impossible to reach? [pdf] Following a policy seminar held in October 2007 the NLT examines the use and relevance of literacy targets.

2007

• NLT assesses Gordon Brown's track record on literacy
  The NLT considers how Brown supported literacy and reading as Chancellor and what this could mean for his premiership. June 2007
• NLT reponse to the Review of Primary Education [Word document] Response to the review carried out by the University of Cambridge and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. Focuses on the importance of early years communications, building whole-school communities that read, and reading in the home. March 2007

2005 and 2006

• Reaching Out: An Action Plan on Social Exclusion - a response from the National Literacy Trust [Word document] Ties in themes from the action plan to the findings of the Literacy and Social Inclusion Project and details the action the NLT is taking. September 2006
• NLT response to the DfES/HM Treasury Joint Policy Review on Children and Young People [Word document] Response to the 'prevention' strand of the review. Argues that early language support for children, and a lifelong offer of support for parents, are protective factors that enable children to meet the five outcomes of Every Child Matters. September 2006
• NLT response to the Interim Report of the Independent Review of the Teaching of Early Reading [Word document] Response to Jim Rose's interim report and recommendations to the Government, February 2006. The National Literacy Trust and the Talk To Your Baby campaign also joined with other organisations concerned with early language and literacy to submit a group response specifically on communication and language issues, January 2006. More
• NLT response to NRDC Policy Paper 2 - Every Child Matters [Word document] A contribution to the National Research and Development Centre for adult literacy and numeracy's work in mapping its findings, as part of Skills for Life, to wider Department for Education and Skills policy areas, November 2005
• Every which way we can - A Literacy and Social Inclusion Position Paper Full paper and summary produced by the Literacy and Social Inclusion Project, February 2005

2003 and 2004

• NLT response to the LSC's Investing in Skills consultation Taking forward the skills strategy - reforming the funding and planning arrangements, December 2004
• NLT response to the Education and Skills Select Committee inquiry into teaching children to read [Word document] Response to the Parliamentary Committee, December 2004
• Speech to the business sector, given by director Neil McClelland at a dinner hosted by the Bank of England, November 2004
• NLT response to the inquiry into the relationship between the state and the family, by the Commission on Families and the Well Being of Children [Word document] Response produced jointly by the Literacy and Social Inclusion Project and the Talk To Your Baby campaign, September 2004
• Literacy and Social Inclusion: The policy challenge Discussion paper produced by the Literacy and Social Inclusion project, April 2004
• Television and language development in the early years: a review of the literature Research review commissioned by the Trust, March 2004
• 10 years to finish the job NLT director Neil McClelland reflects on the first 10 years of the Trust. Literacy Today, December 2003
• NLT response to the children's Green Paper, Every Child Matters Produced by the Literacy and Social Inclusion Project, November 2003

2002 and earlier

• Talk tall NLT director Neil McClelland outlines the thinking behind the Trust's plans for an early language campaign, Literacy Today, September 2002
• Overview of early language development research and practice - birth to three May 2002
• Seeing the big picture NLT director Neil McClelland explains why systems thinking is the key to building a literate nation, Literacy Today, September 2001
• Parental involvement and literacy achievement: the research evidence and the way forward. A review of the literature  National Literacy Trust consultation paper, May 2001
• NLT response to Skills for life: the national strategy for improving adult literacy and numeracy January 2001 
• National developments in family literacy Viv Bird, National Literacy Trust, January 2001 
• It takes the whole city Article by NLT director Neil McClelland from the TES, January 1997