Bookstart in Northamptonshire – Moving Forward

Working to deliver NCC

outcomes

Partnership

working

Focused together Cross Agency

strategy

Building on strengths Sustainable

synergies

Improving and moving

forward Evaluating

Impact

Key Strategies

Key Focus

Child & Family Health and Life Chances

Child Development & School Readiness

Parenting Aspirations, self esteem and parenting skills

Bookstart Partnership

Projects

Bookstart Corner in Northamptonshire

Embedding Bookstart Corner in Children’s Centres

• Working with Early Years Strategic Leads

• Sure Start Children’s Centre Statutory Guidance

• OFSTED – Getting it right first Time Achieving and maintaining high-quality early years provision.2013

• Synergies with Libraries

Capacity to deliver

• Mapping partners in super outreach area

• Not limited to 1 person delivering it from Centre

• Homestart

• Family Nurse Partnership

• Health Visitor referrals

• Volunteers

Bookstart Corner – Northamptonshire Evaluation

• In Northamptonshire 37 Children’s Centres signed up for the programme Bookstart Corner 2011-13

• Programme has reached some of the most hard to reach families in Children’s Centres reach areas.

• It has enabled book sharing and rhymes to be explored as well as speech and language and issues around routines.

• It has increased Children’s Centre staff’s knowledge to the value of book sharing and strengthened their understanding of the Bookstart Programme.

“

We find it a really useful programme – a way for our parent link staff to make contact with families who need encouragement to engage with centre services and a practical way to encourage parents to develop their confidence with communication and interaction skills with their children”

Finishing the visits at the local library has worked well parents have shared that they continue to visit the library regularly with their children. “

Parents have

commented that they

read more to their

child. Increased

confidence in sharing

songs and rhymes”

Bookstart Corner 5th Intervention 2 year Pack

Bid from Trajectory Funding

• Builds on the successful BSC Programme and the new targeted offer by Bookstart for 2 year olds as well as the Every Child a Talker Programme ECAT and “Let them be 2” training.

• Develop lead practitioners and parents

• Involve Childminders and Family Learning

• Links with Family Learning and Library Plus