A few thoughts about the One in Seven

There is a statistic which I keep repeating, and for a set of very good reasons - one in seven of the adult population within the UK is, to a greater or lesser extent functionally illiterate. In normal times I would be pointing out just why this means we need to focus more of our attention upon adul...

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Main Author:	Martyn Lowe
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	ISC Collective 2021-03-01
Series:	Information for Social Change
Subjects:	access to networked services adult literacy covid-19 information access information literacy
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4603271

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A few thoughts about the One in Seven

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