Essex County Council has launched an initiative to promote language and communication development in young children. More details with some useful ideas and activities can be found on the website at www.essex.gov.uk/tlc
To build on the good practice that has been developed through this programme a further initiative has been developed – The Early Language Development Programme. The aims of this programme are to ensure young children develop the language skills they need to be ready for school. All our members of staff attended in-house training to ensure that they are familiar with the positive approaches to supporting communication development on the 6th September 2013.
A website ‘The Foundation Years’ has been created to give support and ideas for parents, carers and people working with young children. Further details on the revised Early Years Foundation stage Curriculum can be found here together with lots of other useful information, please take a look www.foundationyears.org.uk.