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Charity's five year strategy aims to help all children with speech and language challenges

A five-year strategy has been launched to place children’s speech and language higher on the political agenda.
Speech and Language UK has set out an 'ambitious' five-year strategy to help children struggling with talking and understanding words, PHOTO: Adobe Stock
Speech and Language UK has set out an 'ambitious' five-year strategy to help children struggling with talking and understanding words, PHOTO: Adobe Stock

Following on from its recent report, ‘Listening to unheard children’, which found 1.9 million children are now behind with talking and understanding words, Speech and Language UK has launched its new five-year strategy, ‘Confident young futures’.

It comes after engagement with over 700 families, supporters, teachers and professionals.

The strategy sets out the charity’s ambitions to make speech and language central to more schools and nurseries, support even more families and put the issue on the political agenda.

Speech and Language UK wants to make sure every child with speech and language challenges has the skills they need to ‘face the future with confidence’.

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