• Social inclusion and reading - a Trust paper analysing children's reading habits in the light of whether or not they receive free school meals (June 2006)
• Literacy and Social Inclusion: The Handbook - the project's final publication (November 2005)

• Early Years
• Parents
• Children
• Young People
• Adults
• Children and young people in care
• Truancy and school exclusions
• Working with communities
• Extended schools
• Links

Early years

• Overview
  
• Bookstart (various dates)
• Children's early literacy experiences at home and later literacy development (1996)
• Digital beginnings: Young children's use of popular culture, media and new Technologies (0-6 years) (2005)
• Early Excellence Centre pilot programme: second evaluation report 2000-1 (2002)
• The Effective Provision of Pre-school Education (EPPE) Project (ongoing)
• The Harvard Home-School Study (ongoing)
• Head Start (ongoing)
• High/Scope (ongoing)
• The influence of pre-school experience on early literacy attainment (2000)
• Measuring language development (2002)
• PEEP (Peers Early Education Partnership) (various)
• Pre-school Educational Inequality? British children in the 1970 Cohort (1999)
• The Raising Early Achievement in Literacy (REAL) Project (various dates)
• Step in to Learning (ongoing)
• Support from the Start: Working with young children and their families to reduce the risks of crime and anti-social behaviour (2004)
• Sure Start (ongoing and various dates)
• Emergent techno-literacy The impact of television, computers and mobile phones on early literacy (June 2003)
• Early literacy intervention Why don't some children benefit from standard early literacy intervention? (December 2002)
• Articles from Literacy Today

Parents

• Overview
  
• Families and the state. Two-way support and responsibilities (2005) - from the Talk To Your Baby pages
• Father involvement and outcomes in adolescence and adulthood (2001)
• Fathers in Sure Start (2003)
• Fathers Inside - working with offenders (2002)
• Gypsy Travellers and education: changing needs and changing perceptions (2004)
• The Impact of Parental Involvement, Parental Support and Family Education on Pupil Achievements and Adjustment: A Literature Review - by Charles Desforges et al (2003)
• Including families in the learning community: Family centres and the expansion of learning (2005)
• A model of the inter-generational effects of parental education (2004)
• On Track - evaluation (2004)
• Parental Involvement in Children's Education (2003)
• Parents, Children and the School Experience: Asian Families' Perspectives (2005)
• Parents' views on improving parental involvement in children's education (2005)
• School, Family and Community Partnerships (2002)
• Step in to Learning (ongoing)
• Support from the Start: Working with young children and their families to reduce the risks of crime and anti-social behaviour (2004)
• What makes parenting programmes work in disadvantaged areas? (2006)

Family literacy

• Family learning: a survey of current practice - Ofsted (2000)
• Family Literacy in England: Theory, Practice, Research and Policy (2004)
• Keeping up with the children: project evaluation (2002)
• The NFER follow-up study of BSA's family literacy demonstration programmes (1997)
• NIACE evaluation of LSC funded family programmes (2003)
• PEEP (Peers Early Education Partnership) (various)
• The Raising Early Achievement in Literacy (REAL) Project (2001)
• Share - evaluation (various)
• Skills for Families (2004)

• Background
  
• The education of asylum-seeker pupils (Ofsted 2003)
• Evaluation of the Extended Schools Pathfinder Projects (2004)
• Evaluation of the Full Service Extended Schools Project: End of First Year Report (2005)
• Evaluation of On Track (2004)
• Gypsy Travellers and education: changing needs and changing perceptions (2004)
• The media literacy of children and young people: A review of the research literature (2005) - from the main NLT site
• Playing for Success (various)
• Provision and support for Traveller pupils (Ofsted 2003)
• Read On - Write Away! (various)
• Reading for change (results from PISA 2000)
• Reading for purpose and pleasure: An evaluation of the teaching of reading in primary schools (Ofsted 2004)
• Reading Matters for Life (2004)
• School, Family and Community Partnerships
• Schools are for adults too (NIACE discussion paper, 2002)
• Support from the Start: Working with young children and their families to reduce the risks of crime and anti-social behaviour (2004)

Young People

• Overview
  
• Basic skills and social exclusion (2002)
• Breaking barriers? Reaching the hardest to reach (2003)
• More research by the Prince's trust (links)
• The education of asylum-seeker pupils (Ofsted 2003)
• Evaluation of On Track (2004)
• The impact of social exclusion on young people moving into adulthood (2000)
• Implementing the Increased Flexibility for 14-16 Year olds Programme: The experience of partnerships and students (2004)
• Increased Flexibility Programme at Key Stage 4 (Ofsted 2005)
• The media literacy of children and young people: A review of the research literature (2005) - from the main NLT site
• Mobile technologies and learning (2005) - from the main NLT site
• Playing for Success (various)
• Provision and support for Traveller pupils (Ofsted 2003)
• Reading Matters for Life (2004)
• Research on the education maintenance allowance (link) (2003)
• The role of street-based youth work in linking socially excluded young people into education, training and work (2004)
• Secondary Transfer and Retention in Key Stage 3: A Longitudinal Study of Gypsy Traveller Pupils (2004)
• Starting over: Young refugees talk about life in Britain (2003)
• Success factors in informal learning: Young adults' experiences of literacy, language and numeracy (2004)
• Support from the Start: Working with young children and their families to reduce the risks of crime and anti-social behaviour (2004)
• Transitions: a Social Exclusion Unit interim report on Young Adults (2005)
• Working with 14-16 year-olds with basic skills needs in FE Colleges (2005)
• Young Adults Learning Partnership (YALP) (2004)
  

Adults

• Overview

• Adult education and attitude change (2004)
• Adult media literacy: A review of the research literature (2005) - from the main NLT site
• Adults' attitudes to learning (various)
• Basic skills and crime: Findings from a study of adults born in 1958 and 1970 (2002)
• Basic Skills and Financial Exclusion (2001)
• Basic skills and social exclusion (2002)
• Basic skills in the workplace: a research review (2003)
• Basic skills programmes in the Probation Service: Evaluation of the Basic Skills Pathfinder (2004)
• Catching Confidence (2004)
• The Contribution of Adult Learning to Health and Social Capital (2003)
• The benefits to employers of raising workforce basic skills levels: a review of the literature (2003)
• Embedded teaching and learning of adult literacy, numeracy and ESOL (2005) - from the main NLT site
• ESOL in the workplace
• Evaluation of Round 5 of the Adult and Community Learning Fund (2002)
• Evaluation of the Union Learning Fund in Year 4 (2002)
• Fathers Inside - working with offenders (2002)
• A Fresh Start in the Workplace: programme evaluation report (2002)
• In demand: adult skills for the 21st Century (2001)
• Learning and skills for neighbourhood renewal: Summary report on research for the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit (2003)
• The Learning Divide Revisited : a report of the findings of a UK-wide survey on adult participation in education and learning (2000)
• Literacy, numeracy and ESOL: a survey of current practice in post-16 and adult provision (Ofsted, 2003)
• Literacy, numeracy and the labour market: Further analysis of the Skills for Life survey (2005)
• Low achievers: lifelong learners (2002)
• Low pay, household resources and poverty (2004)
• More detailed findings of the Probation Service Pathfinder evaluation (2003)
• Provision of, and learner engagement with, adult literacy, numeracy and ESOL support in rural England (2005) - from the main NLT site
• Residential basic skills courses (various)
• Short courses in further education colleges - evaluation (2002)
• Skills for Life survey (2003)
• Skills in England 2001 (2001)
  
• Survey of current practice in post-16 and adult provision (Ofsted report, 2003)
• A survey of reading ability in prisons (1998)
• Time to Learn: Prisoners' Views on Prison Education (2003)
• Union strength through the learning agenda (2004)
• Widening adult participation: a review of research and development (2003)
• Wings of Learning: the role of the prison officer in supporting prisoner education (2005)

Children and young people in public care

• The Achievement at Key Stage Four of Young People in Public Care (2003)
• Children in care victims of academic neglect (2001)
• An evaluation of the Looking after literacy project in Kent (2004)
• Raising Achievement of Children in Public Care (OFSTED report, 2001)
• Right to Read (2001)
• Study shows children in care left to fail (2001/2001)

Main page for children and young people in public care

Truancy and school exclusions

• Breaking Barriers? Reaching the hardest to reach (2003)
• Girls and exclusion from school (2002)
• Inter-agency working to prevent school exclusion (2001)
• Link between school exclusion and homelessness (1999)
• Literature review about the causes and effects of truancy (2002)
• Reducing School Exclusions with social workers in schools (2003)
• Truancy and school exclusion report: Social Exclusion Unit (1998)

Main page for truancy and school exclusions

Working with communities (see also Extended Schools, below)

• Community education and neighbourhood renewal (2002)
• Community-focused provision in adult literacy, numeracy and language (2003)
• Engaging black learners in adult and community education (2002)
• Evaluation of the Extended Schools Pathfinder Projects (2004)
• A Fair Deal for Learning: organising projects for hard-to-reach groups (2001)
• Gypsy Travellers and education: changing needs and changing perceptions (2004)
• Learning and skills for neighbourhood renewal: Summary report on research for the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit (2003)
• School, Family and Community Partnerships (2002)
• What works?: Reviewing the evidence base for neighbourhood renewal (2002)

Extended schools (see also Working with communities, above)

• Evaluation of the Extended Schools Pathfinder Projects (2004)
• New Community Schools in Scotland (2003)
• Schools are for adults too (NIACE discussion paper, 2002)
• School, Family and Community Partnerships (2002)
• Towards the development of extended schools (2003)

Main page for extended schools

Links:

• Keeping up with the children: project evaluation
• The NFER follow-up study of family literacy programmes
• Parental involvement in reading

Links to external organisations

• The Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion is an independent organisation dedicated to promoting social justice and tackling disadvantage. It develops policy and strategy in a variety of fields and conduct qualitative and quantitative research. For details visit www.cesi.org.uk
• The Research Informed Practice Site, from the Department for Education and Skills, aims to help practitioners make sure that practice and policy are informed by good and up-to-date evidence. Visit www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/research