Project Stoke Speaks Out
Funding About £100,000 a year from Stoke-on-Trent City Council and Stoke-on-Trent Primary Care Trust
Purpose To tackle speech and language difficulties experienced by children in Stoke-on-Trent
Background Local research in Stoke-on-Trent in 2001 found about 70 per cent of children started nursery with a language delay. This worrying statistic led to a multi-agency initiative - Stoke Speaks Out - launched with funding from the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund. The local council, speech and language therapists and other professionals from health, education and the voluntary sector joined forces to devise a 20-year city-wide plan to tackle the causes of language delay and make Stoke "a city that communicates".
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