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Marie Gascoigne oral evidence to the Bercow Ten Years On Review
Marie was invited to present an overview of the commissioning of SLCN in the ten years since the original Bercow Review
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Talking About a Generation: Report written by Marie Gascoigne and Jean Gross for The Communication Trust
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Commissioning guidance using the evidence of the Better Communication Research Programme
This guidance was commissioned by the Communication Trust on behalf of DfE
Commissioning for SLCN: Using evidence from the Better Communication Research Programme
Implementing the SEND reforms: Joint Commissioning for Children and Young People with SLCN
Marie was commissioned to author this report on behalf of the Communication Council. It summarises a Communication Council Summit about the joint commissioning of support for SLCN within the context of the 2014 SEND reforms
Better Communication: Shaping speech, language and communication services for children and young people (Gascoigne, M.T., 2012, (ed.))
This publication summarises the content of a series of three conferences held in 2011 bringing together examples of commissioning, prevention and intervention as the National Year for Communication and the Hello campaign drew to a close. The conferences were jointly hosted by Jean Gross, CBE., Communication Champion and the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.
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Implementing the SEND reforms: Joint commissioning for children and young people with SLCN (Gascoigne, M.T., 2014)
Free resource to support commissioning of services for children and young people with speech, language and communication needs Implementing the SEND reforms: Joint commissioning for children and young people with SLCN- report available now The Communication Trust, as secretariat to The Communication Council and in partnership with Better Communication CIC, has published a free online report on joint commissioning for children and young people with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN). The report aims to provide readers with practical information regarding commissioning for SLCN services within the context of implementing the SEND reforms. Click here to access it.
Presentation slides from North West Network Meeting 19th June 2015