The Communication Trust (TCT) – a coalition of more than 50 not-for-profit organisations which has provided resources, training and information on speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) to the children’s workforce for the past 10 years – has been informed its contract with the DfE will not be renewed in March.
The online petition has been set up to lobby Secretary of State for Education Damian Hinds to reverse the decision.
The annual grant TCT receives from the DfE is worth around £650,000, a sum Octavia Holland, director of the trust, said represented around 95 per cent of the organisation’s funding.
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