The funding will be used to train health, visitors, early years staff and family support workers in eight of the most disadvantaged areas of the country to identify children, from birth to five, with poor language and communication skills to make sure they have the skills needed to ‘thrive at school’.
Projects will be delivered in the eight areas, covering 27 local councils. They will build on successful existing schemes already in place.
The pot of money is coming from the Department for Education’s £8.5m early years local government programme, announced last year, to improve disadvantaged children’s early language and literacy development.
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