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Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 23 January 2025

Debate

Children and Young People: Literacy

Contribution

I share my noble friend’s view about the importance and contribution of school libraries. Perhaps the additional core school funding being provided, or the quite particular advice that is now available in the reading framework—on things such as how to organise a school library, book corner or book stock to make reading accessible and attractive to readers—may well help to ensure that the opportunity is available for more children, as he rightly argues for.

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