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Speech and language body lacks education expertise

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The public body charged with spearheading government reforms to improve services for children with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) has been accused of lacking education expertise.

The Communication Council was formed as part of the 52m BetterCommunication action plan, published last December.

"The whole area of work is dominated by health," Communication Trustdirector Anita Kerwin-Nye, who represents expert and voluntaryorganisations on the council told CYP Now. "Without representation fromeducation there is a risk SLCN will continue to be marginalised inschools."

The government is also yet to appoint a communications champion to headup the council, a key pledge in the action plan that was informed byJohn Bercow's 2008 review of SLCN in England.

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