Our Regional Skills Strategy
The children’s workforce in South Yorkshire has the unique opportunity to support speech, language, and communication development and to identify and, where appropriate, address speech, language, and communication needs.
To do so requires a confident and highly skilled workforce, and with a high turnover of staff, and financial pressures on the sector, the level of high-quality training for new entrants is becoming increasingly challenging.
Through the Early Outcomes Project, we developed a Regional Skills Strategy to identify our regional skills gaps and develop approaches to address them.
Our Mission Statement
Through system change, we will build a region where a higher proportion of children achieve at least expected levels in the communication, language & literacy goals by 2028, by working in partnership to identify and confront development gaps at the earliest opportunity and deploy evidence-based interventions through a highly skilled workforce. Delivered through a robust regional early years SLCN strategy, we will make an impact on children and families, especially those most in need of support.
Principles of the Skills Strategy
The 5 guiding principles of our skills strategy will ensure that we focus on the most important skills gaps, play to our strengths, prepare for the future, keep our workforce at the centre of our plans and be responsive and dynamic in the face of change.
