CYP Now - DfE funds Scouts to launch early years provision

The Scout Association is set to team up with children's charity Action for Children to provide early years provision for four- and five-year-olds as part of a pilot project that could be rolled out nationwide within two years.

The initiative is being financed through the DfE's Early Years Disadvantage VCS Grants programme. It is one of a number of early years projects that government has today announced funding for, with a total of £18m to be provided to a range of early development initiatives.

The Scout Association said its early years provision will be designed to engage disadvantaged and harder to reach communities and will aim to help children "develop key life skills" and narrow opportunity gaps between disadvantaged young people and their peers.

"Specifically, the new programme will help young people improve their emotional resilience, communication and language skills, independence and readiness for school," the Scout Association said.

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