Question follow-through · 18261
Children: Communication Skills
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support (a) language and (b) communication skills of children under three.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 5 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 9 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 13 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support (a) language and (b) communication skills of children under three.
9 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Dec 2024
Answer published
Early language skills are vital to enable children to thrive in the early years and later in life.The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) statutory framework sets the standards and requirements that all early years providers must follow to ensure every ch...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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