Issue - meetings

The Sub-Committee received a report providing details of the Literacy Strategy which set out how the Council and its partners would improve Literacy levels in the borough and included an Action Plan that identified the priority actions for the next three years.

The Strategy set out a Vision for Literacy for the next three years: ‘For all in Havering to enjoy and feel confident in the English Language’. The purpose of the strategy was to ensure better coordination of work to support literacy development in Havering.

The Strategy and associated Action Plan focussed on the following groups:

·         Early Years (0-4 Years)

·         Children (5 – 11 Years)

·         Young People (11-19 Years)

·         Adults with Low Literacy.

Following the restructure of the Library Service in 2015/16 the service had relied on volunteers to deliver the Strategy. The biggest challenge was to engage the 11-19 age group.

The Sub-Committee noted the report.