Booktrust Stories Tour, nationwide | Ofsted good practice example | June 2014.
"It made myself and my children and partner feel like a real family again."
For the reading charity Booktrust, this father's comment was exactly the kind of experience it hoped to deliver when it took its Stories Tour project into prisons in England and Wales.
The tour was primarily about encouraging reading in Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Somali families through events held in libraries and community centres, but the charity also wanted it to help imprisoned dads maintain their family ties by reconnecting with their children via storytelling.
Taking the project behind bars was "a huge learning curve" says Justine Hodgkinson, the strategic lead for the Stories Tour, which Ofsted recently highlighted as an example of good practice.
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