Rejected petition Reverse the decision to de-fund BookTrust Cymru's free baby book scheme
The decision to remove funding for this scheme leaves Wales as the only UK nation without this longstanding free baby book scheme. A scheme that has evidenced its value and impact over many years.
BookTrust is the UK’s largest children’s reading charity and their mission is to get children from low-income and vulnerable family backgrounds reading regularly, by choice and for pleasure. Their focus is on helping children in key developmental years.
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BookTrust’s work is driven by evidence. Their research gives unique insights into the lives of the families they work with and what works to build the reading habits that bring immediate and lifelong benefits to the children who need it most.
BookTrust Cymru works with delivery partners across all 22 local authorities in Wales to deliver a range of impactful and bilingual programmes that will inspire a love of reading in children because they know that reading can transform lives.
From babies to children in their early years and all the way through to early teens, reading brings profound and wide-ranging benefits that can have a lifelong positive impact on children’s lives.
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