CILIP | Synposis of report: Start with the Child

Synposis of report
includes a section on background. The needs of children and young people. Positive responses to changed needs which have been made by libraries. What inhibits the success of libraries in meeting changed needs. How can we make best practice more widespread.

1. BACKGROUND

Start with the Child has the following Terms of Reference:

To examine the changing library needs of children and young people
To examine the extent to which they are being met by existing library services for children and young people, provided through the public library service, school and further education libraries and school library services
To review the relationship between libraries, reading, literacy and learning revealed in recent research and development work and assess its impact and effectiveness on library services
To recommend improvements and how to bring them about, in library services for children and young people

The overriding commitment of the Working Group and the authors of the report was to focus always on the needs of children and young people, in considering the future of services and to base their conclusions on the evidence of research, rather than rhetoric.

2. The needs of children and young people
3. Positive responses to changed needs which have been made by libraries.
4. What inhibits the success of libraries in meeting changed needs?
5. How can we make best practice more widespread?

Updated: 23 January 2007