3rd January 2019
As part of the government’s commitment to reducing the word gap, the Department for Education (DfE) and Public Health England (PHE) are leading a joint programme of work as part of the Social Mobility Action Plan (SMAP). One element of this is that the Institute of Health Visiting has been commissioned by PHE to develop training for health visitors to:
- promote a strengths-based approach to supporting parents and carers of pre-school children with their child’s speech, language and communication development;
- to support early identification and appropriate signposting to speech language and communication services.
We need to establish a baseline in relation to health visitors’ current knowledge of speech, language and communication. This will help us to shape the planned training and the development of resources which we will be rolling out in 2019.
Your participation in this survey is entirely voluntary and this short survey will take no more than 10 minutes of your time.
