Access and opportunities through library services for children

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Access and opportunities through library services
for children young people

• Helen Boothroyd
• Suffolk Libraries Operational Lead

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I readRichard Peck 1990

• I read because onelife isnt 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 Im justbeginning myself, andI
  wouldnt mind a map
• I read because I havefriends who dont,
  andyoung though they are,theyre beginning
  torun out of material

• I read because everyjourney begins atthe
  library, and itstime for me to startpacking
• I read because oneof these days Im goingto get
  out of thistown, and Im going togo everywhere
  and meeteveryone, and I wantto be ready.

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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

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Reasons to be cheerful, Part 4

• Early Years/Childrens Centres
• Moving English Forward Ofsted March 2012
• Opportunities locally for public libraries, SLS
  school libraries to work together
• Universal Reading Offer
• Childrens Offer (in development by ASCEL/SCL)
• Digital formats
• Political attention
• Media attention

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Running up that hill

• Funding it wont 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