Bookstart
Bookstart is the national programme that encourages all parents and carers to enjoy books with children from as early an age as possible. Bookstart works to ensure that every child in the UK develops a lifelong love of books.
Friday 10 October is National Bookstart Day 2008 and the theme is Pirates Ahoy! Visit www.bookstart.org.uk for more information and downloadable resources.

BBC RaW
RaW, the BBC’s adult literacy campaign continues with its highly successful families phase, using Max and Lara’s Amazing Travelling Space Circus. The BBC is producing new books, great family story festivals and a family writing competition.
RaW is organising FREE train-the-trainer story writing workshops for practitioners. These workshops have been devised with the family learning environment in mind. To be eligible you must have contact with emergent readers and be able to run your own workshops reaching at least 20 adults and agree to promote the competition to your learners. There are places available all over the UK in August, September and October - email raw.workshops@bbc.co.uk to find out about practitioners’ workshops in your area.
Organisers can sign up as RaW centres to receive free resources, receive campaign updates and get listed on BBC helplines. RaW Centres and libraries will be sent booklets explaining the competition. If you would like copies of the booklet the best way is to register as a RaW Centre in the campaign partner section at www.bbc.co.uk/raw The competition launches on 3rd September 2007 and closes 31 January 2008.

Dadcando.com
Dadcando.com is intended to be a resource for all dads, but with a special emphasis on helping the single and or non-resident fathers who have contact with their children – however mums are allowed to use the resources too! The resources on this site are ideal for practitioners to use with families and a great tool to promote to dads.

Get On
The Get On campaign encourages the millions of people in England who experience difficulties with literacy, language and numeracy, or would benefit from 'brushing up' on these skills, to enrol on a free course. The campaign aims to help create a society where adults have the basic skills that they need to find and keep work and participate fully in society. There are thousands of free courses available for anyone interested in improving their maths and English skills. For more information visit: www.dfes.gov.uk/get-on

Learning and Skills Council
The Learning and Skills Council exists to make England better skilled and more competitive. The Learning and Skills Council have a single goal: to improve the skills of England’s young people and adults to ensure we have a workforce of world-class standard.The LSC is responsible for planning and funding high quality education and training for everyone in England other than those in universities.