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This report outlines the first year-on-year findings on attitudes and behaviours around listening to audio.View details about Children and Young People’s Listening in 2023 -
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This report examines the relationship between young people's reading engagement and both their environmental awareness and pro-environmental actionView details about Can I read to save the planet? -
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Based on data from our 2023 Annual Literacy Survey, this report tracks book ownership in children and young people in the UK.View details about Book ownership in 2023 -
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Evaluation of the second year of the Changing the Story reading programmeView details about Changing the Story: 2023 evaluation -
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Evaluation of the Suffolk Love Reading programme in 2023View details about Suffolk Love Reading: 2023 evaluation -
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As part of our Libraries for Primaries campaign, we launch an updated evidence review for the need for and impact of school libraries, and our evaluation report, summarising the...View details about Libraries for Primaries: Evaluation and Evidence Review -
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A short report sharing what children and young people told us about reading for mental wellbeing in 2023.View details about Reading for mental wellbeing: Children and young people's voices in 2023 -
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Teachers’ experiences of, and attitudes to, using ebooks to support children's reading for enjoyment.View details about Using ebooks to support reading for pleasure in 2023: A survey of primary school teachers -
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This report shares the impact of Connecting Stories 2, an ambitious project to increase access to literature in places where people are most likely to be facing poverty and have...View details about Connecting Stories 2 evaluation: 2021-2023 -
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1 in 4 (26.7%) children and young people said they read poetry in their free time at least once a month in 2023.View details about Children and young people's engagement with poetry in 2023 -
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This evaluation report explores the impact of participating in Our Little Big Book Club, on families and school coordinators.View details about Our Little Big Book Club: 2023 Evaluation -
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This report outlines findings from our 2023 Annual Literacy Survey, in which we recorded the lowest level of reading enjoyment since 2005.View details about Children and young people's reading in 2023 -
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Report on the confidence of young people aged 16-30 in communicating their opinions on a range of issuesView details about Confident Young Adults: Communication and social, public, and civic engagement -
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This report presents an external evaluation of First Words Together in Birmingham, a family learning programme focussing on early communication, developed with Speech and Language...View details about Evaluation of First Words Together in Birmingham -
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This report presents an external evaluation of our Represent programme, designed to improve communication skills, resilience and wellbeing for girls aged 11 to 14 excluded from, or...View details about Evaluation of Represent -
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This evaluation report explores the impact of participating in First Words Together in Cornwall, on families and practitioners.View details about First Words Together in Cornwall: 2023 Evaluation -
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A summary report of how our evidence-based Young Writers programme is supporting schools to develop lasting writing-for-enjoyment practices with the view that every young person is...View details about Programmatic approaches to supporting writing for enjoyment -
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This report explores findings from our 2023 Annual Literacy Survey, which found that just a third of children and young people aged 8 to 18 said they enjoyed writing, one of the...View details about Children and young people’s writing in 2023 -
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This report draws on data from our 2023 Annual Literacy Survey, to investigate access to author visits in school, as well as the link between author visits and enjoyment and...View details about Author visits in schools, and children and young people’s reading and writing engagement in 2023 -
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This evaluation report shows how our secondary school improvement programme has transformed literacy outcomes in some of the most disadvantaged communities.View details about Literacy for Learning: Improving literacy in secondary schools -
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This report shows that providing young people who aren’t confident communicators with structured oracy and writing activities as well as real-world opportunities to practise those...View details about Words for Work: Developing young people’s communication skills needed for employment
