Belfast is to have a pilot for the popular Dolly Parton Imagination Library, which provides a free new book each month for children up to five years old.
At Belfast City Council ’s recent meeting of its People and Communities Committee, elected representatives agreed a motion by SDLP Councillor Séamas de Faoite to investigate and trial the programme, which was opened in the UK in 2007.
The council motion states: “Belfast City Council acknowledges that the majority of physical brain development occurs in the first three years of life, when children form over one million new neural connections per second.
