SLCN / Bercow Pathfinders Programme Group

This group is aimed at those interested in the Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN) Commissioning Pathfinder Programme currently being delivered by the CSP, and those interested in the wider speech, language and communication agenda. Join this group to share resources, good practice and discuss ideas with your colleagues and people working on the Commissioning Support Programme with expertise in SLCN. You will need to log in or register first.

Better communication: An action plan to improve services for children and young people with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) PDF (575 KB)

Following John Bercow's review of services for children and young people with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN), the Government published this Action Plan to provide details of a range of initiatives across the Government to improve services for children and young people with SLCN. Children with SLCN are among the most vulnerable and most in need of effective support to reach their potential. The Plan also provides an indicative summary timetable for initiatives to improve these services and explains how the initiatives will be funded. (Department of Health, 2008)

Effective and efficient use of resources in services for children and young people with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN). Research for the Bercow review summary PDF (122 KB)

The Secretaries of State for Children, Schools, Families and Health invited John Bercow MP to review services for children and young people with speech language and communication needs (SLCN). The review was to focus on the range and composition of universal and specialist services to best identify and meet the diversity of needs and secure value for money within the context of the Comprehensive Spending Review and available resources. This research brief summarises the results of this review and explores how planning and performance management arrangements and effective cooperation between government departments and responsible local agents can be used to promote early intervention and to improve services. (Department for Children, Schools and Families, 2008)

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