CYP Now - Two-fifths of primary schools sign up for DfE-funded speech and language programme

More than 6,000 primary schools in England have signed up to take part in a programme to support reception-aged children whose early language and literacy development has been most affected by the pandemic.

Around 62,000 children will benefit from the initiative. Picture: Adobe Stock

Some 62,000 four- and five-year-olds in 6,672 schools will receive the Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI) during the current academic year, according to data released by the Education Endowment Foundation.

The fully-funded programme has been offered to state-funded schools by the Department for Education in response to disruption to schooling caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

So far two-fifths of such schools have taken up the offer.

DfE has announced additional funding to expand the rollout to more schools for the 2021/22 school year, to be delivered by the Nuffield Foundation.

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