1 Inspiring a lifelong love of books Helping children achieve more Bookstart Booktime Booked Up Letterbox Club for Looked after children ( a purchasable programme )

2 Aims  To see the bookgifting programmes as a continuum supporting children on their reading journey and as a core service for children and families  To understand how the programmes are co-ordinated and administered here in …..  To explore new ways of working - ideas for increasing the effectiveness and realising the potential of the bookgifting programmes

3 Bookgifting programmes in (LA name) Children are eligible to receive the free gifts at five key stages:  Bookstart for babies ________  Bookstart+ for toddlers ________  My Bookstart Treasure Chest for pre-school children _______  Booktime for reception-aged children _________  Booked Up for Year 7 pupils _________

4 The number of eligible children in ( Name of LA ) to receive a book gift this year is: ---- Bookgifting programmes in (LA name)

5 Bookstart  Bookstart is one of the most respected early intervention programmes in the world  It gives cultural and creative access to every child  Bookstart began in 1992 and is almost 20 years old!  Became the first national bookgifting programme in the world in 2000  More than 24 countries have followed in Bookstart’s footsteps and set up similar programmes

6 Bookstart Baby Pack

7 Bookstart + Toddler Pack

8 My Bookstart Treasure Chest Pre-school Pack

9 Bookstart Rhymetimes Bookstart Bookcrawl Bedtime Reading

10 The Rhyme Challenge Learn up to 10 rhymes together:  At home with the family  At an early years setting  At primary school  Hold a special Rhymetime event  Receive a special certificate  Build confidence around rhymes - children, parents and practitioners

11 Bookstart and Dual Language Resources o Albanian o Arabic o Bengali o Chinese o Croatian o Czech o Farsi o French o Greek o Scottish Gaelic o Somali o Spanish o Tagalog o Tamil o Turkish o Urdu o Vietnamese o Yoruba o Gujarati o Hindi o Italian o Japanese o Punjabi o Polish o Portuguese o Romanian o Russian

12 Booktouch and Bookshine

13 Potential outcomes:  May encourage book sharing and family involvement  Increase parental confidence  Promote positive home/school relationships  Builds on partnership with local Library Service --- schools receive free Booktime resources every year in

14  Booked Up encourages independent choice and reading for pleasure by giving a free book to every Year 7 pupil in ( LA NAME ) when they start secondary school  ( Number )secondary schools in ( LA NAME ) take part each year )

15 Letterbox Blue for Year 3-4Letterbox Red for Year 5-6

16 Public Private Partnership 1 Booktrust Charity+ 2 Central Government - DfE ‘ Catalyst’ Investment funding + 3 Children’s Publishers, Authors, Illustrators and others. Corporate Social Responsibility = Bookstart Booktime Booked Up Not for Profit£13M£56M Programmes worth £69million pa

17 The value of Bookgifting to (LA name)  There are ( put total number of eligible children) in our authority  The retail value of Bookstart, Booktime and Booked Up equates to : £??????

18 Gifting Routes  Library Services  Early Years Services  Children’s Centres  Childminders  Health Services  Primary Schools  Secondary Schools  Home Educated services  Gypsy Roma Traveller Families  English as a second language  Visual Support Teachers  Deaf Support Teachers  New Arrival Families  Women's Refuges  Prisons  Pupil Referral Units

19 An amazing bargain – with outcomes beyond price  Stories, songs and rhymes are a cultural entitlement for all children to enjoy  A child who shares books every day and lives in a language-rich home, develops language and literacy skills, as well as benefiting socially and emotionally  We help fathers, mothers and carers see themselves as the child’s most important and enduring teachers and help them to enjoy and value reading in the home  Children who enjoy books become well rounded individuals, articulate confident and eager learners and these benefits can last a lifetime

20 £????? invested in (LA name) ‘Books are a mirror to your life, and a window on the world.’ ‘ Sharing a book with your child is very special; as you talk about the story, you get to know your child and they get to know you. This is really precious time and it is not only about learning skills - stories teach us the very nature of being human.’

21 Bookstart, Booktime, Booked Up in (Name of LA )  Bookstart Co-ordinator  Funding partners  Local storage  Local delivery  Working with Partners > Add a local Pic

22 Addressing social disadvantage List the specialist groups and agencies that you work with to reach disadvantaged families > Add a local Picture Here

23 Challenges and opportunities.... We need your help List three key things that you really need support with going forward 1) 2) 3)

24 Inspiring a lifelong love of books Helping children achieve more Bookstart Booktime Booked Up Letterbox Club for Looked after children