PROJECT
Chatterbooks West Midlands Schools Project
FUNDING
£16,000, including £10,000 from The Mercers' Charitable Foundation to run the pilot. Training costs for schools are £150 for a staff member to deliver a reading club and £25 for a toolkit
BACKGROUND
The best way to turn children into confident readers is to instil in them a passion for reading, according to Department for Education (DfE) guidance published this spring.
The Reading Agency's Chatterbooks scheme sets out to do just that. The charity started running reading groups for children in libraries in 2001. At the end of 2013, it decided to test the approach in schools with funding from The Mercers' Charitable Foundation.
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