Its aim is to support developmental opportunities for reading for young people aged 14 to 19 who are disaffected or disengaged from formal education.
It does this by encouraging young people in youth work settings to read more widely and more frequently, supporting stronger youth work-library partnerships and a range of development activities to help build active reading communities in youth work settings.
The first phase, which ran to March last year, involved projects developed by six local partnerships of youth workers, workers in non-formal settings and librarians across a geographical spread - Dorset, Hertfordshire, Lancashire, Norfolk, Portsmouth and Stockton-on-Tees.
Learning from this phase included the importance for partnership working of a common goal, enthusiasm, effective communication, flexibility, mutual support, a willingness to reflect, a shared sense of ownership, and commitment to young people's enjoyment of reading.
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