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Work with adult learners

The Vital Link principles

The Reading Agency runs a range of activity to enable and encourage public libraries and learning providers to work together to create an exciting offer to new readers - a welcoming space with friendly staff, support to learn, the right books and lots of creative ways of promoting them. This is underpinned by the principles of The Vital Link - our approach to partnership working between the library and adult literacy sectors.
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Work with adult learners

Do you work with adults who want to improve their reading and writing skills? The Vital Link is the national programme which aims to reach out to adult literacy learners and emergent readers (the term for those who can read but have yet to build their reading stamina and experience). We run The Vital Link in partnership with the National Literacy Trust.
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