Case studies

Family Learning
Bookstart Cornwall
An instructive example of how schemes can link into Family Learning and broaden their impact by using Bookstart to encourage learning across the family.
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Refugees and asylum seekers
Foleshill Children's Centre, Coventry
How monthly Bookstart sessions have been helping refugee and asylum families feel more part of the local community and encourage them to make use of local services.
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Reaching mothers in prison
York
Regular Bookstart visits to mothers inside HMP Askham Grange in York have yielded positive outcomes.
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Fathers in prison
Lancashire
Bookstart joins up with an existing family literacy project in Lancashire to strengthen bonds between fathers in prison and their families.   
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Homeless families
Wigan
Specially designed story sessions help homeless families benefit from the Bookstart programme.
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Traveller families
Wigan
Bookstart reaches children at travellers' sites in Wigan through the introduction of weekly children's activities.
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