The West Midlands is leading the way in development of a region-wide unfied approach to media literacy. Following the launch of a national Charter for Media Literacy in late 2005 the West Midlands developed a strategy of its own.

In this section of the site you can find out more about Media Literacy in the region, the work we are doing and how YOU can get involved.

"we need to get media literacy deep into the DNA of the education process... It must become part of every educational, social and economic strategy in our country".

Digby, Lord Jones of Birmingham at the launch of Switching on to Media Literacy. 18th June 2007.

See and hear the launch!

We've added images, audio recordings from Switching On to Media Literacy in June to the launch pages so if you missed it you can catch up on the event on the launch page.

In this section:

To find out more about the content of the strategy visit the Strategy page

To find out how you can get involved visit the Consultation page

To find out more about what happened at the launch visit the Launch page

To find out more about our future plans visit the Steering Group page

To find out more about the development of the strategy visit the Task Group page