The Department for Education (DfE) has today named the final six nurseries that will act as ‘lead hub settings’ under its early years stronger practice hubs programme, which aims to improve the teaching of children’s early speech, language and literacy, they are:
They join the 12 Hubs already established under the DfE's Early Years Stronger Practice Hubs programme, which is being led by the NCB, with support from the Education Endowment Foundation (EFF). It is being funded for two years until late 2024.
Under the programme, a network of 18 Early Years Stronger Practice Hubs are being set-up to support early years practitioners to adopt evidence-based practice improvements and build local networks for sharing effective practice.
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