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Looked-after children ( LAC) and young people face huge disadvantages. Many have encountered terrible trauma and disruption to their lives. Their educational attainment levels lag way behind those of their peers, through no fault of their own.
The government sees looked-after children as a high priority, and has inaugurated a range of policies and strategies to improve their care and education. A number of library authorities have put innovative schemes into place in recent years, providing popular and successful interventions.
This course will examine the current national picture in relation to looked-after children, will identify ways in which libraries can fulfil their responsibilities in this important area, and will consider policies and practices for supporting their reading development.
Benefits of attending
Participants will explore the reading and information needs of looked-after children, the role of libraries in supporting them, and practical strategies for encouraging their reading.
By the end of the course participants will have:
- increased their understanding of who looked-after children and young people are
- expanded their awareness of their reading and information needs
- identified barriers to library use, and begun to find ways of dismantling these
- examined strategies for promoting reading effectively considered appropriate resources and methods for exploiting them
- shared good policy and practice and identified ways to develop and sustain them
Who should attend?
Children’s librarians, other public library staff, school librarians, school library service staff, designated teachers, social workers, residential workers, carers.
Programme
- Looked-after children: the national picture Who looked-after children are, and the national context we are working in
- Reading needs and reader development The issues LAC face with their reading and effective library support
- Reading resources and how to exploit them Appropriate resources for LAC and ways to use them effectively
- Moving forward What are the key issues we need to grapple with, and how can we begin to plan to succeed?
Places are limited to: 20
9.15 Registration and coffee - 12.45 Lunch - 4.30 Close
Course leaders: Anne Harding and John Vincent
Fees
CILIP personal members: £200 plus VAT £235.00
CILIP organisation members: £235 plus VAT £276.13
Non members: £275 plus VAT £323.13
Updated: 11 June 2008