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<p>In total, the department has announced almost £5 billion for an ambitious, multi-year
education recovery plan to support young people to catch up on missed learning.</p><p>As
part of education recovery, the department is investing up to £180 million of recovery
support in the early years sector. Strengthening understanding of speech and language
development is an important part of this support.</p><p>The recovery includes investing
in continuous professional development for early years practitioners, through the
national expansion of the early years Professional Development Programme, which has
a focus on upskilling practitioners to support the early development of literacy and
language and early mathematics, alongside personal, social, and emotional development.
The department is also investing over £24 million for local authorities to select
and train early years practitioners in the best programmes to support parents with
the home learning environment. This aims to improve children’s early language and
social and emotional development, giving priority to families that will benefit the
most.</p><p>Additionally, the department is investing £17 million for the Nuffield
Early Language Intervention (NELI), which is a proven programme aimed at the reception
aged children needing extra support with their speech and language development. We
are also increasing the number of qualified special educational needs coordinators
in early years settings.</p><p>The Recovery Premium, providing £1.3 billion for the
2021/22, 2022/23 and 2023/24 academic years, is additional funding to help schools
deliver evidence-based approaches to support education recovery. Recovery Premium
eligibility builds on that of the pupil premium. However, school leaders have flexibility
to use the funding to support any pupil where a need is identified, including those
with speech and language difficulties. Schools can 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>The Parent Pledge in the Schools White Paper will also make the department’s
vision clear that any child who falls behind in English or mathematics will receive
the right evidence-based targeted support to get them back on track.</p>
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