I CAN, the children’s communication charity and the Council for Disabled Children are among those voluntary organisations to receive the funding.
The two-year contracts will run until 2013 and may be extended for a further two years.
The Early Language Consortium led by I CAN will run early language development training in children’s centres in the poorest areas of the country, with the aim of reaching more than 960,000 families.
The aim of the Early Language Development Programme (ELDP) is to ensure that more young children develop the language skills they need to be ready for school. I CAN said that evidence shows that children's understanding and use of vocabulary at the age of two is very strongly linked to their performance when they start primary school.
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