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Family Learning in Leicestershire Library Services Leicestershire County Council Community Services Department Staff Structure Chart: Libraries June 2006 Community Outreach Caring About Reading Leicestershire Library Services: Family Learning Funding & Policy
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Family Learning in Leicestershire Library Services Leicestershire County Council Community Services Department
Staff Structure Chart: Libraries June 2006 Community Outreach Caring About Reading
Leicestershire Library Services: Family Learning Funding & Policy • No official FLW policy/mainstream funding • LLS Mission statement “Libraries Play a vital Role at the heart of the Community” • Framework for the Future - Books, Reading & Learning • Inspiring Learning for All - Emphasis on enjoyment
Family Learning in Leicestershire Libraries • Bookstart - Wriggly Readers -Teen Parents • Activities for families • Work with parents • Courses for families run by partners • FLW activities: progression-partnership • Special projects: Got Kids, Kickstart, RaW Kids, Caring about Reading • Links to Skills for Life Agenda
Family learning and the community2 examples Caring About Reading • working with looked after children and their carers, focussing on the enjoyment of reading and the importance of the enjoyment of reading • starting to get foster carers engaged in learning with the looked after children Prisons • ensuring prisons adopt a reading culture • Free with Words • Storybook Dads
Issues • Further reorganisation • Quantity Vs Quality • Informal Vs Formal • Learners needs/wants • External Priorities/Funding • Sign posting- Progression