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Nursery World Awards 2023 – Inclusive Practice Award

Award Winners Inclusion SEND
WINNER – Early Intervention Speech and Language Team, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust’s Early Intervention Speech and Language Team was commissioned by Small Steps Big Changes to provide speech and language services to help meet needs in four ethnically diverse wards in the city.

Nearly 40 per cent of children in Nottingham do not reach the expected level in communication, language and literacy areas of learning in Reception year. Many children in the four wards are raised in multilingual environments and some families have limited or no proficiency in English. The team focuses on dispelling the myths around multilingualism and English as an additional language in terms of children’s language development among both families and professionals.

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