The recently published Levelling Up white paper included as one of its 12 missions that by 2030, 90 per cent of children will achieve the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, and the percentage of children meeting the expected standard in the worst performing areas will have increased by over a third. If the government is serious about meeting this ambitious target, it must ensure that supporting children with difficulties speaking and understanding language are at the heart of its plans.
At I CAN, the children’s communication charity, we know that children who struggle with speaking and understanding language are held back from achieving their potential – as many as one in four children who struggled with language at age five did not reach the expected standard in English at the end of primary school.
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