Literacy and Social Inclusion: The
Handbook is for people involved in planning and developing
local services, including education. It shows how different
organisations, including local authorities, can work together
to develop community literacy strategies to support schools
and contribute to shared priorities for literacy.
The handbook demonstrates the relevance of community literacy
strategies to early years provision, primary and secondary
schools, the post-16 sector, the cultural sector and sport,
the Every Child Matters agenda and the criminal justice
system. It describes a collaborative literacy process that
involves partners and service users, and provides a checklist
for identifying shared goals and agreeing a delivery plan.
The handbook forms a practical partner document to the
Literacy and Social Inclusion position paper, Every
Which Way We Can. It was produced in November 2005.
Literacy and Social Inclusion: The
Handbook is produced by the National Literacy Trust
and distributed by The Basic Skills Agency, and is priced
at £5.00 plus postage and packing.
Contact: The Basic Skills Agency, PO Box 5050, Sherwood
Park, Annesley, Nottingham NG15 0DL
Tel: 0870 600 2400
Email: basic-skills@prolog.uk.com
Web: www.basic-skills.co.uk
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Several case studies are provided in the handbook, and we
are grateful to everyone who helped with these. Contact
details for the projects, in the order in which they appear
in the handbook, are as follows:
Strategic
support for family learning in Croydon
Musseret Anwar, Family Learning Manager/Skills for
Families Consultant, Croydon Continuing Education and Training
Service (CETS)
Email: musseret.anwar@croydon.gov.uk
Tel: 020 8656 6620
Catherine Rhys, Wider Family Learning Coordinator, Croydon
Email: catherine.rhys@croydon.gov.uk
Tel: 020 8686 4433 ext. 2132
Partnership working in Lancashire
(NE1 4 Reading)
Paul Robinson or Jean Wolstenholme, Young People's Services,
Lancashire County Library
Email: Paul.Robinson@lcl.lancscc.gov.uk
or Jean.Wolstenholme@lcl.lancscc.gov.uk
Tel: 01772 534040
More on NE1 4 Reading
Multi-agency working in Stoke on Trent
Janet Cooper, Stoke Speaks Out
Email: janet.cooper@northstaffs.nhs.uk
Kirsty Crank, Start Up
Email: kirsty.crank@northstaffs.nhs.uk
Thanks also to Michael Durell, then at Stoke Speaks Out
and Start Up, for his help with this case study.
Partnership
with housing providers (Shared Beginnings)
Reading Is Fundamental, UK
Email: rif@literacytrust.org.uk
Tel: 020 7820 6272 www.rif.org.uk
Family learning
across communities in Rochdale
Shamshad Ash, Partnership Education Service Manager
Email: Shamshad.Ash@Rochdale.gov.uk
Tel: 01706 710803 www.rochdale.gov.uk
More on Rochdale
family literacy programmes
Thanks also to Nan Jackson at Rochdale Metropolitan Borough
Council for her help with this case study.
Basic skills
help for teenagers in a Portsmouth school
Tracey James, Director of Basic Skills, King Richard School
Tel: 023 9232 2483
The voluntary sector at work in
Herefordshire
Julie Wilson Thomas, Chief Officer, Herefordshire Literacy
Project (HELP)
Email: Julie@helpvcs.co.uk
Tel: 01432 375988 / 07734 297 200 More on HELP
Networking in East London
The Training Providers' Network
Email: info@thetpn.org
Tel: 020 8590 3451 www.thetpn.org
Thanks to Nathan Singleton at the TPN, Ken Coello at LSC
London East, Mark Adams and Terry Reagan at the London Borough
of Barking and Dagenham, and Mohammed Nouafasse at Barking
College for their help with this case study.
Croydon museums and libraries -
partners in family learning
See Strategic support for family learning
in Croydon, above
Norfolk
museums inspire adult basic skills learners (Norfolk
Museums and Archaeology Service)
Faye Kalloniatis, Project Manager
Email: faye.kalloniatis@norfolk.gov.uk
More on Getting your hands on
the past
Thanks also to Katrina Siliprandi at NMAS for her help with
this case study.
Community arts learning in Rochdale
See Family learning across communities
in Rochdale, above
Sports journalism for vulnerable
young people
Tackling Skills
Email: tacklingskills@foyer.net
More on Tackling
Skills
Thanks to Jo Tongue at the BBC and Posy Craig-Hall at The
Foyer Federation for their help with this case study.
One to one support for juvenile
offenders
One to One
Tel: 01491 643315
Thanks to Vic Brown and Libby Rees for their help with this
case study.
The following is a list of links to more information on
organisations and initiatives mentioned in the handbook
(in alphabetical order). Where this site has information
on the organisation or initiative, the link is to that information
(from which there are further links external sites). Where
we have no further information the link is to the appropriate
external site.
A number of policy documents are mentioned in the handbook.
Full references for these and links to more information
are provided in the list below (documents are in alphabetical
order by title). See also the policy areas
below.
14-19 Education and Skills
Department for Education and Skills (2005) 14-19
Education and Skills, London: The Stationery Office.
(White Paper)
More on 14-19 Education
and Skills
Full report at www.dfes.gov.uk/publications/14-19educationandskills
Choosing Health
Department of Health (2004) Choosing
Health: making healthier choices easier, London:
The Stationery Office. (White Paper)
Full report at www.dh.gov.uk
Every Child Matters
Department for Education and Skills (2004) Every
Child Matters: Change for Children, London: Department
for Education and Skills.
Department for Education and Skills (2003) Every
Child Matters, London: The Stationery Office. (Green
Paper)
More on Every Child
Matters
Full reports at www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/key-documents
Excellence and Enjoyment
Department for Education and Skills (2003) Excellence
and enjoyment: A strategy for primary schools, London:
Department for Education and Skills
Full report at www.standards.dfes.gov.uk
Five Year Strategy for Children
and Learners
Department for Education and Skills (2004) Five
Year Strategy for Children and Learners: Putting people
at the heart of public services, London: The Stationery
Office.
More on the Five Year Strategy for
Children and Learners
Full report at www.dfes.gov.uk/publications/5yearstrategy
The Moser Report
Department for Education and Employment (1999) A
fresh start: Improving literacy and numeracy. The report
of the working group chaired by Sir Claus Moser,
London: Department for Education and Employment.
More on the Moser Report
Full report at www.lifelonglearning.co.uk/mosergroup/rep.htm
Youth Matters
Department for Education and Skills (2005) Youth
Matters, London: The Stationery Office. (Green Paper)
Full report at www.dfes.gov.uk/publications/youth
The following is a list of links to more information on
the policy areas mentioned in the handbook (in alphabetical
order). Where this site has information on the policy area,
the link is to that information (from which there are further
links to Government sites). Where we have no further information
the link goes to the appropriate external site. See also
the policy documents above.
The following is a list of links to more information on
the funding streams mentioned in the handbook (in alphabetical
order). Where this site has information on the funding stream,
the link is to that information (from which there are further
links to external sites). Where we have no further information
the link goes to the appropriate external site.
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