Research updates

Bookstart’s contribution to improving the language and literacy skills of children has relevance to a number of ‘hot’ issues on the social policy agenda, like social exclusion, children’s services, basic skills, and the role of voluntary organisations delivering public services, the so-called ‘Third Way’.

Bookstart research updates provide an accessible and timely guide to exactly what the Bookstart programme offers on these key issues.

Investing in the very young (Word doc 46Kb)
February 2007
James J. Heckman's report, issued by the Ounce of Protection Fund, compares the effectiveness of early learning to retraining in later life.
 
KPMG Foundation Report (Word doc 48Kb)
December 2006
Written to accompany KPMG’s initiative Every Child a Reader, a  project that is providing expert literacy teaching to six-year-olds experiencing literacy difficulties.
 
Leitch Review of Skills (Word doc 49Kb)
December 2006
Sandy Leitch's independent review about how government should tackle the skills shortage in the UK.