Teachers: Training

(asked on 3rd September 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has ensure that the core structured early career content framework for newly qualified teachers includes knowledge and understanding of how to support speech, language and communication.


Answered by
Nadhim Zahawi Portrait
Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 11th September 2018

In May 2018, the Department for Education set out a range of proposals to ensure that all teachers - from those beginning their induction period to more experienced teachers - have greater access to high-quality support, expertise and professional development. The early career framework, which will give all new teachers access to an enhanced offer of support at the beginning of their career and schools greater guidance, forms just one part of these commitments.

The department is working in collaboration with a small expert group and in consultation with wider experts and stakeholders to establish the framework content. This engagement includes a special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) focus group. We are clear that wide sector engagement is critical to ensuring that the framework offers early career teachers access to greater support from the beginning of their career and that this support will have a positive impact on all pupils, regardless of school phase, setting, size and geography.

The SEND focus group are meeting regularly with the department to ensure that all pupils – including those with SEND and other vulnerable groups – benefit from the enhanced Continuing Professional Development offer of teachers.

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