The Early Talk initiative, which was launched by communication charity ICan last month, provides speech and language development training andaccreditation for practitioners in early years settings.
Under the scheme, I Can will assess services offered by Wigan Sure Startand train them to work towards an Early Talk quality assurancestandard.
Suzanne Payne, Wigan Sure Start's quality and inclusion manager, said:"It's about impacting on children's speech and language development intheir nursery years. It's also about developing quality provision andskilling-up practitioners in respect of children's speech and languagedevelopment." Early Talk is a three-year, UK-wide programme delivered inconjunction with children's services and is funded by, among others, theHBOS Foundation and the Gatsby Charitable Foundation.
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