REAL do it? • Training: 92 practitioners & 6 champions • Delivery: REAL offered to 67 settings; take up was 57 (i.e. they had some involvement with REAL). Within the settings that took up REAL, 40 families have received home visits in 17/18 • Gender/ethnicity/language of the child: 55% of participants are boys; 94% are white and just under four-fifths (78%) speak English as their first language at home • Literacy events: Literacy events held in 16 settings and attended by: - 348 children; and - 339 parents • Quality of training: 92% of those trained stated it was either Excellent or Very Good • Ongoing support: 29% of those trained by the end of Year 2 attended 1 or more network meetings • Reach of programme: - 76% of Early Years settings delivering REAL - 87% of children engaged in REAL home visits Is anyone better off? • Impact on practitioners: 92% (61 of 66) of attendees rated training Excellent/Very Good in terms of “increasing knowledge of engaging with parents to support learning” • Impact on parents: 84% (26 of 31) parents reported increased confidence in terms of them being able to support their child’s early literacy • Impact on children: - 74% (26 of 35) of parents reported their child’s literacy, language and communication had improved - Four-fifths or more reported improvements in oral language (93%; 14 of 15); awareness of environmental print (80%; 28 of 35); increased sharing of books (95%; 18 of 19), and improved engagement in early writing (87%; 27 of 31) - Library membership increased from 44% (15 of 34) at the baseline to 79% (30 of 38) at the endpoint