CYP Now - Scheme trains parents to boost literacy skills of disadvantaged children

National Literacy Trust supports parents and under-fives to “chat, play and read” as part of DfE-funded social mobility initiative.

Parents get the confidence they need to support their children’s learning at home

Families are targeted in shopping centres and parks in 12 areas of high disadvantage and with lower than expected literacy skills

Trained volunteers and professionals show parents everyday activities and signpost to online tools and early years services

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Addressing the early language gap is “the thing that would make the most difference for social mobility in terms of educational performance in children and young people”, says Judith Parke, head of home learning environment at the National Literacy Trust (NLT).

With this aim in mind the charity, which works to give disadvantaged children the literacy skills they need, has teamed up with the Department for Education via its three-year initiative Hungry Little Minds.

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