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EYFS training: part 7 – communication and language - Keep talking

How might the Government’s primary school pledge and new ELGs affect C&L training? By Charlotte Goddard

Early communication and language development is in the spotlight. With more than a quarter of children failing to meet the expected level of language, communication and literacy skills at the end of Reception, the Department for Education has unveiled a programme to train more than 3,000 early years practitioners across 53 local authorities to support children’s language skills, from Elklan and the Education Development Trust, as part of the £20 million Early Years Professional Development Fund, and a pilot phase will begin later this year.

The DfE is also funding some local training to support early language development as part of its £8.5 million early years local government programme. It is particularly concerned with the ‘word gap’; the gap in communication skills between disadvantaged children and their peers when they start school. Revisions to the EYFS Early Learning Goals, currently being piloted, with references to ‘using new vocabulary’, have clearly been made with this front of mind.

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