PROJECT
Early Talk Boost
FUNDING
£700,000 from UBS Optimus Foundation over two years from January this year to develop, pilot and evaluate the programme. Early years settings pay £450 per trainee for a starter kit, including an intervention manual, parent training resources and 10 storybook sets, as well as training costs
BACKGROUND
Children entitled to free school meals and living in deprived areas are 2.3 times more likely than their peers to have speech, language and communication difficulties, according to 2012 Department for Education research.
Children's communication charity I Can estimates a quarter of the differences in language ability between three-year-olds are due to environmental factors such as reduced access to libraries and learning activities. It has been working to narrow this gap through Early Talk, a workforce development programme building professionals' skills in developing children's early language.
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