Evaluation of I four UK local support steering group Cross service review using self-audit review the community stakeholders CAN's Early authorities tool, with support of I CAN consultant and parents, Focus groups (Early Talk Talk 0-3 Action plan developed by strategic level lead, and interviews Practitioners’ 0-3 program) programme Service steering group and I CAN consultant understanding of with parents managers Resources provided to support action plan the role of Case studies Action plan activities supported by resources different agencies and I CAN consultancy in supporting Children’s children’s Content practitioners language the training for early development, ‘Train trainer’ years’ workforce delivering messages about Practitioner and importance of speech, language and parent’s communication development for under 3s and confidence in how to support this supporting Activities varied depending on area needs but language included development of referral pathways development and and improving how services are targeted identifying and/or coordinated difficulties Nottinghamshire Multiple Various Local initiative Planning, Steering group Process Increase in Monitoring of Local Authority, services for to improve training, referrals of SLT referrals Steering group formed comprising Local NHS children universal children 2 years Unspecified children’s representatives of all practitioners involved in organisations; aged 0-7 language and service Health visiting and under to SLT, standardised support for the development of language Language for team, SLT reduction in language across universal, targeted and specialist life strategy, service overall SLT assessments services for children Nottinghamshire (Language referral rate, Unspecified Working groups forms for: for Life Increase in qualitative data Training development strategy) vocabulary of collection Operations nursery class Collaborative practice children after Conference and campaign teachers Universal 2 year language screen by health underwent training visiting team, followed by appropriate
Evaluation of I CAN's Early Talk 0-3 programme four UK local authorities support (Early Talk 0-3 program) steering group Service managers Children’s practitioners Cross service review using self-audit review tool, with support of I CAN consultant Action plan developed by strategic level lead, steering group and I CAN consultant Resources provided to support action plan Action plan activities supported by resources and I CAN consultancy Content ‘Train the trainer’ training for early years’ workforce delivering messages about importance of speech, language and communication development for under 3s and how to support this Activities varied depending on area needs but included development of referral pathways and improving how services are targeted and/or coordinated the community and parents, Practitioners’ understanding of the role of different agencies in supporting children’s language development, Practitioner and parent’s confidence in supporting language development and identifying difficulties stakeholders Focus groups and interviews with parents Case studies Nottinghamshire Local Authority, Local NHS organisations; Language for life strategy, Nottinghamshire Multiple services for children aged 0-7 Various Local initiative to improve children’s language and Planning, training, universal service (Language for Life strategy) Steering group Health visiting team, SLT service Process Steering group formed comprising representatives of all practitioners involved in support for the development of language across universal, targeted and specialist services for children Working groups forms for: Training development Operations Collaborative practice Conference and campaign Universal 2 year language screen by health visiting team, followed by appropriate Increase in referrals of children 2 years and under to SLT, reduction in overall SLT referral rate, Increase in vocabulary of nursery class children after teachers underwent training Monitoring of SLT referrals Unspecified standardised language assessments Unspecified qualitative data collection
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