1. Bookstart in Northamptonshire –
Moving Forward

2. Working to deliver NCC
outcomes
Partnership
working
Focused together
Cross Agency
strategy
Building on strengthsSustainable
synergies
Improving and moving
forward
Evaluating
Impact
Key Strategies

3. Key Focus
Child & Family Health and Life Chances
Child Development & School Readiness
Parenting Aspirations, self esteem and parenting skills

4. Bookstart
Partnership
Projects

5. Bookstart Corner in
Northamptonshire

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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.

11. “
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”

12. Bookstart Corner 5th Intervention
2 year Pack

13. 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