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Childbase and Uni of Northampton to trial and produce an environmental tooklit

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Childbase Partnership has secured funding from Innovate UK to support the launch of the first-ever Early Years focused Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) in collaboration with academics from the University of Northampton.

A KTP is a programme that helps UK businesses grow by connecting them with academic knowledge, technology and skills.

This project, which focuses on how to enhance play and learning environments to support and benefit children’s speech and language skills, combines research from Dr Tanya Richardson, senior lecturer in early years at the University of Northampton, and the practice delivered across Childbase’s 44 settings.

It will explore the effectiveness of an environmental audit tool – an Environment Audit for Speech and Language (EASAL), and how it identifies a correlation between the quality of the learning environment and the development of young children’s speech and language.

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