Enjoying and Achieving

This section is your starting point for using TRF in delivering a key strand of Every Child Matters - Enjoying and achieving.

Libraries can support enjoyment and achievement through

  • Providing books for babies
  • Focusing on families
  • Increased partnership working
  • Running reading groups
  • Providing reading challenges
  • Regular story times
  • Creative arts activities


TRF can help you to make your library even more enjoyable and supportive of 'enjoying and achieving' in a wide range of ways.

Download TRF’s service impact outcomes (Word, 184kb) to reflect upon the difference your service is making for your users and for your organisation.

Being clear about what outcomes you want to deliver will help you to decide what you will do in your library to make this happen.

The smallest contact with a child or teenager could be the one that makes a difference…

Young people are more likely to have positive attitudes towards reading and libraries if they are treated well and made to feel welcome in the library. This will promote enjoyment and achievement.

TRF offers guidance and interactive support in making your day-to-day contact with young people as positive as possible. Here you have the opportunity, via our learning scenarios, to reflect on your existing skills, learn new skills, and discuss different ideas and approaches with your colleagues.

Everyone wants to feel there is a place in the library for them…

A library that is fun for its users but does not support personal achievement is less likely to be satisfying in the long run. A library that is focused exclusively upon users’ reading or learning achievement might seem rather dull or academic.

TRF offers ideas and approaches for making the library welcoming, enjoyable and inspiring for all. We have developed Top Tips and FAQs to help you reflect on your library environment. It is always good to take a fresh look.

Get your service noticed…

Do you have an advocacy strategy for any aspect of your young people's service? Are other local services aware of your contribution towards 'enjoying and achieving'? An advocacy strategy can improve the support, appreciation and status of your service - and the funding.

TRF offers advice and guidance in developing an advocacy strategy.

TRF provides quick and easy access to reports and case studies to support you in planning and advocating your services.

Plan, evaluate and build your partnerships…

The TRF planning and evaluation framework has been developed in consultation with library practitioners and is being used by library authorities, and by national reading initiatives, to plan and assess the impact of key elements of their services for young people.

Further information...

Related websites for further exploration of fulfilling the 'enjoying and achieving' outcome:

  • Department for Children, Schools and Families  This site maps standards, targets and best practice in a range of areas relating to children and young people, including homework, and services for children and young people from hard to reach groups.
  • Local Government Association work with Children and Young People. This website describes the Local Government Association's work in supporting councils to help the children and young people who live in their areas achieve the best possible outcomes.
  • Improvement Network This network supports improvement in the delivery of local public services through addressing the current needs of local councils. This link takes you straight to questions and answers about the background to development of services for children and young people.