Home Education: Finance

(asked on 7th February 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the £1.7 million awarded to organisations in the voluntary and community sectors to support evidence-based home learning, how much funding was received by each organisation; and what programmes that funding will support.


Answered by
Nadhim Zahawi Portrait
Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 21st February 2018

Grants were awarded to the following organisations to work with disadvantaged communities, encourage the take up of two-year-olds places, and engage and work with parents to create a positive home learning environment between January 2017 and March 2018:

  • The Family and Childcare Trust was allocated a grant of £417,165 to deliver their 'Parent Champions' programme with a focus on supporting disadvantaged families in rural areas, black and minority ethnic (BME) communities and those families with children with special educational needs and disabilities;

  • Home Start UK was allocated a grant of £403,880 to pilot the ‘word pedometer’ developed by the US based LENA research foundation to provide disadvantaged families with coaching from trained home visiting volunteers to increase the quantity and quality of language interaction with babies and children under the age of three;

  • The Institute of Wellbeing was allocated a grant of £450,000 with a focus on raising awareness on the benefits of early education, home learning environment and two-year-old programme. Activities include a targeted campaign via outreach for BME families unlikely to access statutory services, online accredited practitioner training to 'improve equality and inclusive practice and development of culturally tailored eLearning home learning environment parenting programme ‘Giving your child the right start’;

  • A consortia of four organisations led by the National Literacy Trust was allocated a grant of £429,998. This grant funding breaks down as follows:

- National Literacy Trust was allocated £153,330 to support disadvantaged children and families eligible for the two-year-old programme and strengthen the home learning environment with a programme called 'Early Words Together at Two'.

- National Children’s Bureau was allocated £138,332 to support disadvantaged families to develop a positive home learning environment and to develop young children’s literacy skills using an adapted model of REAL (Raising Early Achievement in Literacy).

- Peeple and Foundation Years Trust were allocated a total of £138,366 to support disadvantaged children to engage parents in their children’s learning in the home and add value to the two-year old programme using the 'Peep Learning Together programme'.

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