Birmingham becomes a city within which:

• adults and young people have adequate literacy/numeracy skills to be able to participate in community, social and economic activity
• adults in employment have levels of communication/numeracy to do work tasks well and see opportunities for self-development
• employers and employees recognise a shared responsibility for continuing development of communication/number skills of employees and the workplace
• those seeking employment have essential communication and number skills for employability
• pupils leave school having reached highest achievement levels in literacy/numeracy and confident with IT support for these
• children, young people and adults see themselves as able to be readers, writers, communicators in range of ways
• there is a strong culture of reinvesting literacy/numeracy skills for the benefit of others
• parents are confident in own abilities to develop literacy/numeracy skills in children
• levels of literacy, numeracy and IT skills in Birmingham increase to exceed national target levels for pupils at Key Stages 1-4, and for adults