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.
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:
- 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'.