Readiness for School and tackling SDOH for CYP at ICS level - Children and Young People’s Health Equity Collaborative Framework and

- The early years foundation stage (EYFS) framework sets out seven areas of learning and development for the early years: Prime areas Specific areas Communication and language Literacy Physical development Mathematics Personal, social and emotional development Understanding the world Expressive arts and design - The primary indicator used to assess readiness for school is the percentage of childre. [...] These will join up and enhance services for families to provide support for parents and carers, contribute to reduced inequalities in health and education outcomes, and build the evidence base for what works. [...] A focus on children, early intervention Integrate and join up holistic services across education, ECEC settings, health and the community to effectively support and refer families with a and prevention range of needs Training / supporting early years workforce locally (including qualifications) Alignment of readiness for school activity with key features of a HEC intervention - for ICSs to fill ou. [...] - A focus on speech and language training and referral as part of the Blackpool Better Start (BBS) programme included training health visitors and practitioners in early years settings to use ‘WellComm Assessment’, a toolkit for speech and language screening and intervention. [...] This includes a group-based intervention delivered by SLTs, developing consistent speech and language messages, and the ‘Evelina Award’, which provides training and coaching to settings to help them identify speech, language and communication needs and signpost to further support.