cost of living crisis

Early Words Matter: National Literacy Trust addresses cost of literacy crisis

Empowering early literacy through the National Literacy Trust’s “Early Words Matter” campaign, targeting childhood development and education.

CILIP launches Libraries at Risk Monitor to protect UK public libraries amid financial pressures and a cost of living crisis.

Explore the pivotal role of libraries in communities post-Covid-19 and amid economic challenges – will they survive?

Audible CEO announces job cuts amid evolving industry landscape and new AI challenges in digital audiobooks.

Children’s Laureates including Sir Michael Morpurgo urge UK government to invest in early years reading amid cost of living crisis.

Libraries Connected launches programme supporting council libraries amid financial crisis in England and Wales.

Finance authors share wisdom with How To Be Books for a prosperous 2024: Budgeting, saving, and investing strategies for success.

Library expenditure in Great Britain rises 3%, according to CIPFA, reflecting increased in-person visits and book borrowing.

Explore the etiquette and ethics of regifting books, from sustainability to insights from authors and readers.

Rising book disparities as cost-of-living crisis affects access to reading for almost a million UK children, who do not own books at home.