Over the ten years 1996 to 2006 substantial energy and resources were put behind developments in language, literacy and numeracy across Birmingham as a whole.  This article takes stock of some of these developments and the current ‘platform’ of development across the range of agencies in Birmingham.  This platform is the position from which Birmingham needs to ‘springboard’ to the next set of aspirational levels as most of those same organisations draft out their intentions to 2010, 2011 or beyond.

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