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<p>The £300 million Recovery Premium for this academic year is additional funding
to help schools deliver evidence-based approaches to support education recovery. In
October 2021, as part of our broader Spending Review settlement, we announced an extension
to the Recovery Premium, worth £1 billion for the 2022/23 and 2023/24 academic years.</p><p>Recovery
Premium eligibility builds on that of pupil premium, but school leaders have flexibility
to use the funding to support any pupil where a need is identified, including those
with speech and language difficulties.</p><p> </p><p>Schools are expected to spend
their Recovery Premium, alongside their pupil premium, in line with the Education
Endowment Foundation’s recommendation to fund activities that support high quality
teaching, provide targeted academic support, and address non-academic barriers to
success in school, such as attendance, behaviour, and social and emotional support.</p><p>Schools
should therefore use their funding to assess and address immediate needs, such as
those relating to speech and language difficulties, as well as longer-term strategic
improvements, such as boosting the quality of oracy teaching.</p><p>We are also investing
up to £180 million of recovery support in the early years sector, with new programmes
focusing on key areas such as speech and language development for the youngest children.
This includes:</p><ul><li>an expansion of the professional development programme,
which has a focus on early language and mathematics, as well as personal, social,
and emotional development</li><li>a significant expansion in the number of staff in
group-based providers, and childminders, with an accredited level 3 Special Educational
Needs Coordinator qualification</li><li>programmes to train early years practitioners
to support parents with the home learning environment, and improve children’s early
language, social and emotional development, and</li><li>the Nuffield Early Language
Intervention (NELI) programme, aimed at reception aged children needing extra support
with their speech and language development.</li></ul><p>The NELI programme includes
training for staff on identifying speech and language difficulties, and is proven
to help children make around 3 months of additional progress.</p>
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