CYP Now - National Youth Agency: Comment -- The game's afoot

Youth workers are, as we know, past masters and mistresses of latching on to current affairs and "where young people are" to make the most of their work with the young.

I'll avoid making any reference to a certain forthcoming election and the opportunities this might present. Instead, casting my glance a bit further afield, I see the game's afoot. With the first game of the Football World Cup in South Africa kicking off on 11 June the countdown is very much under way and World Cup obsession is set to hit fever pitch.

One organisation very quickly on the ball is the National Literacy Trust, which has joined forces with children's author Tom Palmer and the Football Association to develop a free World Cup resource to inspire young people's reading.

The resource is a toolkit for literacy professionals and features ideas and activities that youth clubs, schools, libraries and learning centres can use to promote reading through sport.

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