Funding Available to all schools for Every Child a Reader (ECaR)
All schools have been invited to attend a presentation about ECaR on 10 February at 2.00 - 4.00pm at Cambridge Golf Club, Hemingford Abbots. I hope to recruit a good number of new schools wishing to take up the DCSF offer of a contribution to funding to train a Reading Recover Teacher in 2010/11. More information including an excellent Cambridgeshire newsletter available on the Literacy Site.
Every Child a Reader is a unique collaboration between charitable trusts, the business sector and government. It aims to show that, with the right resources, it is possible to overcome the literacy difficulties that blight so many children's lives.
The vision is that every child who needs early literacy support receives it and that the numbers of children experiencing long term literacy difficulties are dramatically reduced. Progress towards this vision took a leap forward when government announced in December 2006 that Every Child a Reader would be rolled out nationally, benefiting 30,000 children year on year from 2010-11.
The roll-out, which began in September 2008, is being managed by government through the Primary National Strategy, working in partnership with the Reading Recovery National Network at the University of London Institute of Education.
