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Title: First Words Together: Birmingham, Black Country & North East. Project Evaluation Report 2024
Language: English
Authors: Chris Pascal, Tony Bertram, Sean Delaney, Helen Lyndon, National Literacy Trust (United Kingdom)
Source: National Literacy Trust. 2024.
Availability: National Literacy Trust. Swire House, 59 Buckingham Gate, London, SW1E 6AJ, UK. Tel: +44-2078-282435; Fax: +44-2079-319986; e-mail: contact@literacytrust.org.uk; Web site: http://www.literacytrust.org.uk
Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 82
Publication Date: 2024
Document Type: Reports - Evaluative
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Language Acquisition, Speech Skills, Disadvantaged, Ethnicity, Minority Groups, Foreign Countries, Family Environment, Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Self Esteem, Parent Attitudes, Caregiver Attitudes, Program Effectiveness, Access to Health Care, Intervention, Child Language, Family Programs
Geographic Terms: United Kingdom (Birmingham), United Kingdom (England)
Abstract: National Literacy Trust (NLT) received a grant as part of the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Fund 2020-21 which enabled them to develop and evaluate their First Words Together programme (FWT). The theme of the Health and Wellbeing Fund 2020-21 was Starting Well, with the aims of improving health outcomes for children from preconception to two and a half years old in areas of high deprivation and/or Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities. The First Words Together programme aimed to do this by improving the learning and speech and language development of disadvantaged under-twos, targeting communities with a high percentage of families from ethnic minority backgrounds and those living in areas of disadvantage across Birmingham city. Further funding was secured to extend the programme roll out in Birmingham for a third year, as well as to extend the delivery of the programme in to two further areas over a three-year period: The Black Country (Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton); and the North East of England (Darlington, Gateshead, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Rotherham, South Tyneside, Sunderland). The aim this time was not only to capture the impact of the programme on children, families and staff, but also to understand how the programme fits within different local early years systems in order that it can be most effectively deployed in the future. [The Centre for Research in Early Childhood (CREC) were appointed as independent evaluation partners and have authored this report.]
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  Data: National Literacy Trust (NLT) received a grant as part of the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Fund 2020-21 which enabled them to develop and evaluate their First Words Together programme (FWT). The theme of the Health and Wellbeing Fund 2020-21 was Starting Well, with the aims of improving health outcomes for children from preconception to two and a half years old in areas of high deprivation and/or Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities. The First Words Together programme aimed to do this by improving the learning and speech and language development of disadvantaged under-twos, targeting communities with a high percentage of families from ethnic minority backgrounds and those living in areas of disadvantage across Birmingham city. Further funding was secured to extend the programme roll out in Birmingham for a third year, as well as to extend the delivery of the programme in to two further areas over a three-year period: The Black Country (Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton); and the North East of England (Darlington, Gateshead, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Rotherham, South Tyneside, Sunderland). The aim this time was not only to capture the impact of the programme on children, families and staff, but also to understand how the programme fits within different local early years systems in order that it can be most effectively deployed in the future. [The Centre for Research in Early Childhood (CREC) were appointed as independent evaluation partners and have authored this report.]
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