'Make family learning available to all'

A wider range of family learning programmes is needed to tackle problems of under-achievement, truancy and anti-social behaviour in children and to improve the lives of adults, according to a new policy paper from the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE). Margaret Lochrie, author of the new policy paper, Family learning: building all our futures, said, 'This report considers research which suggests that family learning not only benefits children, but may make a significant contribution to the lives of adults - confident parenting, literacy, language and numeracy, combatting educational equality, poverty and social exclusion.