■  Encourage local authorities to promote better literacy, through homework clubs, longer opening hours for libraries, and better design and standards in local authority housing – the ideas promoted by the Right to Read Campaign. ■  Enable pre-school centres and schools to adopt special teaching programmes such as High/Scope and the Incredible Years programme, aimed at educating parents in the skills of parenthood and targeting children with Emotional and Behavioural Difficulty (EBD) in school and at home.
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