Support for the Every Child a Reader programme is an example of where the government has already shown initiative. 5.
Typical of Mr Brown, he also announced that the Every Child a Reader programme, giving catch-up tuition to six-year-olds who are falling behind in reading, will be extended nationwide.
The success of the £10m three-year experiment in inner-city schools, which was half funded by the government and half by charitable trusts, has prompted the chancellor to extend the Every Child A Reader programme to more than 30,000 pupils by 2011.
According to conspiracy theorists, the Mind Reader programme involved Butler placing something called an Aspiration Dipersal Field generator in a disused mineshaft in Skelmersdale.
Some blame the obvious ghettoisation, but others are convinced it was the testing ground for an experiment conducted by professor Nathaniel Butler, the lead scientist in the alleged Mind Reader programme.
For example, each picture must have text describing it, so that screen-reader programmes can tell blind people what is there.Some customers have legitimate claims.
I spoke to Irene Picton from the Young Readers Programme at the National Literacy Trust (literacytrust.org.uk) – incidentally, Picton didn't learn to read till she was seven.
At the BBC Overseas Service, Henry Swanzy had recently taken over what became the Caribbean Voices literary programme, and John, with Pauline Henriques, became Swanzy's main verse and fiction reader on the programme.
