Early Words Matter conference
Celebrating excellence in early years
Our Early Words Matter conference provides an opportunity to showcase thought leadership and best practice in the early years sector.
The National Literacy Trust is dedicated to empowering people with the literacy skills they need to succeed in life.
We want to support families to build their children’s communication, language and literacy skills from the very start and work alongside early education providers, speech and language therapists, health services, and community and voluntary organisations to help develop early communication skills in the children they support and care for.
Our annual Early Words Matter conference provides an opportunity to explore the latest research and thought leadership in this space, and celebrate the incredible work that you do.
The government’s Giving every child the best start in life strategy places early childhood at the heart of its ambition to improve children’s learning and life chances. This has provided an ongoing opportunity to explore and celebrate the vital role of those working across the early years sector.
As we continue to implement our pioneering Early Words Matter campaign to support the communication, language and literacy skills of 250,000 children aged 0 to 5 in 21 of the UK’s most disadvantaged communities over the next five years, we have marked this important policy shift with our annual Early Words Matter conference, formerly Talk To Your Baby.
We are excited to explore the long-term economic and moral imperative for a place-based, cross-sector investment in early years.
Early Words Matter campaign
Early Words Matter is our pioneering, five-year campaign to support 250,000 children across the UK. It will include flagship programmes and local community outreach in areas worst hit by poverty and the cost-of-living crisis.
