The consortium of four charities - The National Literacy Trust, National Children’s Bureau (NCB), Peeple and the Foundation Years Trust – have been awarded £430,000 from the Department for Education, funding which was announced last week, to deliver projects to support families and practitioners to improve the home learning environments of children from six disadvantaged communities in England.
The National Literacy Trust will work in Bradford and Leicester to identify and train champions from nurseries to support families with two-year-olds to improve their home learning environments and gain the confidence to support their child’s development.
Another of the projects, being delivered by the NCB in areas of Sussex and Knowsley, will be based upon an adapted model of the Raising Early Achievement in Literacy (REAL) approach developed by Cathy Nutbrown and Pete Hannon from the University of Sheffield. Under the project, children and families will be invited by their nurseries, schools and children’s centres to participate in a series of home visits and literacy events.
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