Below are examples of how libraries are developing partnerships with Skills for Life providers to offer creative activities around reading at an appropriate level. We have also included reports on how libraries have focused work on Dads, particularly in prison.

• HMYOI Glen Parva Reading Dads Report (Word document)
  HMP Leicester Reading Dads Report
  Leicestershire County Council, HMYOI Glen Parva and HMP Leicestershire, July 2006
  - Reports on a fortnight of activities designed to encourage prisoners to read with their children. Library staff are using similar activities as part of Family Learning Week in October 2006.

• HMP Lincoln Reading Together (word document)
  Lincolnshire Library Service, HMP Lincoln and Bishop Grosseteste College, August 2006
  - A report on a Paul Hamlyn Foundation project linking fathers' use of the prison library service with their children's reading through the local library.

• Essential Skills and Reading for Pleasure (2MB word document)
  Coventry Libraries & Information services and Coventry Adult Education services, July 2005
  - Using reading for pleasure as a strategy to improve reading skills with adult learners; focusses on stock, learning activities, staff training, promotion and evaluation.
  
  
• Supporting adult learners' reading groups (Word document)
  South Tyneside Libraries and South Tyneside College, June 2005
  - Development of an adult learners' reading group, a regional reading resource and deposit collections in out-of-library locations.

• Skills for All (Word document)
  Wiltshire Library & Information Service and Wiltshire College, June 2005
  - Learners on Skills for Life courses in Calne are supported with book collections, book discussions and library visits.
• Basic Skills Development Officer (Word document)
  Leicestershire County Council, Leicester City Council, FE and Community Colleges, June 2005
  - Appointment of a dedicated member of staff to develop partnerships, learner support and reading for pleasure with colleges across two authorities.

• Enjoy reading (Word document)
  Leeds libraries and Leeds Learning partnership, June 2005
  A strategy to improve literacy and increase reading for enjoyment amongst basic skills students in deprived areas of Leeds; work was evaluated using Generic Learning Outcomes
  
  
• Quick Reads (Word document)
  Essex County Council Libraries and Essex County Council Adult Community Learning, June 2005
  A nationally recognised partnership to identify, evaluate and promote accessible reading materials to adults improving their literacy skills; includes innovative website, targeted collections in all libraries and external evaluation from the University of Sheffield
• Six-book challenge (Word document) - Hull Libraries and Hull Skills for Life resource centre - is a reading challenge targeted at adults to encourage emergent readers to read for pleasure and help them develop the reading habit. This was taken up by all library services across Yorkshire during 2007 and has now been launched as a national Six Book Challenge in association with the Costa Book Awards by The Reading Agency as part of The Vital Link programme.
• Chat about books: (Word document) is a Skills for Life reading group developed by Leicestershire Libraries and Brooksby Melton college, May 2006. The case study describes setting up a reading group for emergent readers in a Skills for Life group, in partnership with a local college