The Royal Statistical Society defines statistical literacy as a "society in which our lives and choices are enriched by an understanding of statistics".

Getstats
The Royal Statistical Society's ten year statistical literacy campaign. Higher education is a priority area for the campaign.

Briefing Paper on Statistical literacy (PDF, 277Kb)
From the UK House of Comons Library

Statlit
As well as an annual news bulletin it has a useful short guide to statistical literacy, a blog with some fine examples of statistical illiteracy, links to web resources and downloads.

The National Numeracy Network (US)
"...Promotes education that integrates quantitative skills across all disciplines and at all levels." It publishes an e-journal, Numeracy, about teaching strategies, and has a range or teaching resources on its portal.

RSS's online journal eNews
Has useful topical material.

Understanding Uncertainty
The Winton programme for the public understanding of risk led by David Speigelhalter, based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge maintains this site on risk and probability. It includes a number of animations of risk scenarios, and discussions of key tems.

Straight Statistics
A site run by Nigel Hawkes, and is analogous to Ben Goldacre's Bad Science initiative. "We are a campaign established by journalists and statisticians to improve the understanding and use of statistics by government, politicians, companies, advertisers and the mass media. By exposing bad practice and rewarding good, we aim to restore public confidence in statistics." The site has many examples of the (often deliberately) poor or misleading use of social statistics.