Source Description Date

• The Reading Agency  sixbookchallenge.org.uk
  The Six Book Challenge is delivered by public libraries and adult basic skills tutors to help adults build their reading skills and confidence, with incentives and creative reading activities. 24 Feb 2010
• ContinYou - Positive relationships - Supporting adults' basic skills  The ContinYou Share family learning programme
  The ContinYou family learning programme, Share, is designed to offer opportunities for families who have gained the least from formal education. [Positive relationships - Supporting adults' basic skills] 24 Feb 2010
• Learndirect  learndirect.co.uk
  Learndirect provides online courses for nationally recognised qualifications, including those for English/literacy. 23 Feb 2010
• DCSF - SureStart  Step in to Learning
  Step in to Learning helps you to identify and sign-post parents with language, literacy or numeracy needs to appropriate learning opportunities [Positive relationships - Supporting adults' basic skills] 23 Feb 2010
• Niace  quickreads.org.uk
  Quick Reads are perfect for adults who are new to reading, have lost the reading habit or who prefer to read shorter books. 23 Feb 2010
• Parents As First Teachers  Parents As First Teachers (PAFT)
  Parents As First Teachers (PAFT) trains professionals to work on a one to one basis with parents and their children, pre-birth to 5 years. [Positive relationships - Supporting families] 23 Feb 2010
• Scottish Executive - Read Together  Read together
  Read Together, from the Scottish Executive, is a useful resource which highlights what parents can do to help children become readers. [Positive relationships - Supporting families] 23 Feb 2010
• Peers Early Education Partnership  Peers Early Education Partnership - Learning Together
  Peers Early Education Partnership (PEEP) has developed Learning Together materials to support parents and practitioners [Positive relationships - Supporting families - Learning and development - Practitioner training and skills] 23 Feb 2010
• PEAL  Parents, Early Years and Learning
  PEAL has a huge range of resources from practical ideas, local visit strategies and training materials. [Positive relationships - Supporting families - An enabling environment - Community links - Learning and Development - Practitioner Training and Skills 23 Feb 2010
• NLT - Talk To Your Baby and Booktrust - Bookstart  Share books and talk together
  Share books and talk together a seven-page toolkit for early years practitioners that promotes book sharing as a means of creating a language-rich home. [Positive relationships - Supporting families] 23 Feb 2010