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Access and opportunities through library services for children & young people

Explore the importance of library services in providing access and opportunities for children and young people through reading and education.

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Access and opportunities through library services for children & young people

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  1. Access and opportunities through library services for children & young people Helen Boothroyd Suffolk Libraries Operational Lead

  2. “I read because onelife isn’t enough, andin the pages of a bookI can be anybody; I read because thewords that buildthe story become mine,to build my life; I read not for happyendings but for newbeginnings; I’m justbeginning myself, andI wouldn’t mind a map; I read because I havefriends who don’t, andyoung though they are,they’re beginning torun out of material; I read because everyjourney begins atthe library, and it’stime for me to startpacking; I read because oneof these days I’m goingto get out of thistown, and I’m going togo everywhere and meeteveryone, and I wantto be ready.” I readRichard Peck 1990

  3. Reasons to be cheerful, Part 4 • The Evidence: • Social Mobility and Education Gaps in the Four Major Anglophone Countries – Sutton Trust May 2012 • 7 Key Truths about Social Mobility – APPG Interim Report May 2012 • PISA 2009 • Reading for Pleasure/attainment

  4. Reasons to be cheerful, Part 4 • Early Years/Children’s Centres • Moving English Forward – Ofsted March 2012 • Opportunities locally for public libraries, SLS & school libraries to work together • Universal Reading Offer • Children’s Offer (in development by ASCEL/SCL) • Digital formats • Political attention • Media attention

  5. Running up that hill… • Funding – it won’t always be like this • Political attention • SLS: • Buyback/smaller packages/new business • Academies/Free Schools • Reducing influence of Local Authority • Role of the school library – do schools know? • Working collaboratively

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