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Section 2 - Services to Children and Young PeopleServices for children and youngpeople“Reading and libraries are crucial toachieving our national ambitions forcommunity cohesion, active citizenship,lifelong learning and happy lives for ourchildren”(Start with the Child report, September2002, CILIP)• Fulfilling Their Potential (the Teenagestrategy).• Out of Hours Study Support.BookstartBookstart is a national scheme initiatedand administered by the Arts andEducational charity, Booktrust. It is a multiagencypartnership between libraries,health visitors and education and is fundedby Booktrust, Central Government andcommercial sponsorship.Hertfordshire Libraries strive to be familyfriendly, supporting the needs of children,young people, their parents and carers. Allpublic libraries and mobile libraries provideaccess to a range of materials andactivities for children and have 336,236children's items in stock. Young People’sServices Librarians work in every Districtpromoting libraries and reading to children,young people, parents and carers, as wellas partner organisations and local groups,eg Children’s Centres.“Learning to read is probably the singlemost important factor in school success,and nothing contributes to success in earlyliteracy as much as early exposure tobooks”(Naomi Eisenstadt, Head of Sure Start)Framework for the Future (F4F), thenational strategy for public libraries, hasidentified four national offers for childrenand young people, which HertfordshireLibraries are already delivering.These offers are:• Bookstart.• The Summer Reading ChallengeBookstart is based on the principle thatevery child in the UK should have theopportunity to enjoy book sharing from asearly an age as possible so that theybenefit educationally, culturally, sociallyand emotionally. Book sharing drawschildren towards literacy through the loveof stories, songs and rhymes andencourages parents to see themselves astheir baby’s first and most enduringteacher.Hertfordshire Library Service andHertfordshire Primary Care Trusts (PCTs)have been involved with gifting BookstartBaby Bags to babies aged 7-9 monthssince 1999. The scheme was extended in2005 so that children now receive anadditional two packs – the Bookstart+satchel for children aged 18-30 monthsand My Bookstart Treasure Chest forchildren aged 36-48 months.3
Section 2 - Services to Children and Young PeopleKey facts and figures for 2006-07• Hertfordshire gifted 10,400 BookstartBaby Bags – this suggests thatapproximately 80% of eligible childrenreceived a Bag.• 9,200 Bookstart+ satchels weredistributed to toddlers usually at theirtwo year development check, reachingapproximately 70% of this age group.• 3,680 Treasure Chests were distributedto children via their private nursery orday care setting during the summerterm 2006. A further 13,700 childrenhave received theirs via 275 councilnurseries during the academic year2006-07.Libraries in Hertfordshire act as asecondary gifting point for all the Bookstartpacks, particularly for children who havemissed the relevant gifting health check orwho do not attend an Early Years setting.Libraries also play an important role insupporting Bookstart by offering:• Baby Rhyme Times provided in 29libraries by staff who have beenspecially trained. They emphasise theimportance of parents interacting withbabies to develop early literacy skills.Responses by parents/carers to the“Loving Baby Rhyme Time” surveyincluded:“Daisy loves the songs and being withother children”“I would recommend Rhyme Time toanyone. It helps babies to grow inconfidence”• Weekly storytimes in every staticlibrary.“Storytime is fantastic” (Childminder-Kings Langley)• Bookstart Book Crawl – a library joiningincentive for children between the agesof 0-48 months. After five visits they areawarded a certificate of their choice.There are five certificates to collect,each one designed by a leadingchildren’s illustrator. This scheme waslaunched Countywide in all libraries onNational Bookstart Day 2006. Sincethen 4,800 “Crawls” have been startedand 1,030 certificates awarded. 728children have joined to take part.Children with special educational needsBooktouch is a Bookstart pack availablefor children aged 0 – 48 months with avisual impairment. Contents include tactilebooks and information for parents/carerson sharing books with a visually impairedchild. 18 children received a pack in 2006-07.Opportunity classes are run by healthprofessionals for children under five whohave special needs. Visits have beenmade to seven classes to talk to parentsand to offer a Booktouch pack or tactilebooks, depending on the needs of theindividual child. Visits to the remaininggroups are being organised for the comingyear.Bookstart have produced two SENbooklists which have been distributed tolibraries, Opportunity classes, Children’scentres, SENCo and HomestartVolunteers.:• Finding books to suit different needs,which suggests book titles in variousformats eg signing, tactile and on CD.• Finding inclusive books, which givesexamples of books showing positiveimages of children with a disability.4
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