Links

www.dcsf.gov.uk/offenderlearning

Offenders Learning & Skills Unit
http://www.dius.gov.uk/skills/engaging_learners/
offender_learning/policy/prison_libraries

Prison Service website
www.hmprisonservice.gov.uk 

Vital Link
http://www.vitallink.org.uk

National Literacy Trust
http://www.literacytrust.org.uk
http://www.literacyforum.org.uk

Citizens Advice Service
http://www.adviceguide.org.uk.
The Citizens Advice service is a network of charities that helps people resolve their legal, money and other problems by providing information and advice, and by influencing policymakers.
Adviceguide now covers topics of particular interest to prisoners and their friends and families.

Umbrella
http://www.cilip.org.uk/umbrella2011/Pages/default.aspx


Welcome to Your Library is a project connecting public libraries with refugees and asylum-seekers. The project started in five London boroughs, and has now extended nationally, with current partner library services in Leicester, Liverpool, across Tyne & Wear, and in the London Boroughs of Hillingdon and Southwark. The project is being coordinated by the London Libraries Development Agency www.llda.org.uk in partnership with The Network www.seapn.org.uk .

There are very obvious links between this project and the work that many prison librarians do, and we thought that it would be useful to look at whether there could be further links made between prison librarians, public libraries and refugee & asylum-seeker communities.

We are also developing an e-list with the aims of developing awareness of relevant resources and policy developments; publicising relevant courses, events and publications; and asking questions, requesting help and providing information on practice issues.

If you would like to respond with information about work you are doing and/or would like to join the e-list, then please contact either
Helen Carpenter, the project coordinator helen.carpenter@llda.org.uk 
or
John Vincent, The Network john@nadder.org.uk 

Prisons Handbook
http://www.prisons.org.uk/

This is an independent web site dedicated to the coverage of the penal system in England and Wales

The National Institute for Adult Continuing Education (NIACE)
Promotes more, better and different adult learning
http://www.niace.org.uk

Opening the Book:
provider of training and consultancy in reader development for libraries.

Access to Frontline training, an online course in the theory and practice of reader-centred work in the adult library

http://www.openingthebook.co.uk/frontline