Funded by the Department for Education, the three-year initiative was commissioned as part of the Better Communication Action Plan, the Government’s response to the 2008 Bercow review of services for children and young people with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN).
Based on evidence from ten individual BCRP projects, and an analysis of data of 6,400 children, 560 parents, 600 speech and language therapists and 750 teachers and special educational needs co-ordinators, the report makes the following recommendations:
to create a framework setting out the different levels of support required for different levels of need;
to develop a comprehensive programme of initial and post-qualification training for teachers, teaching assistants, early years practitioners and speech and language therapists to meet the varied needs of children with communication needs;
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