Contract for the Delivery of the Letters and Sounds Programme Update

The Contracting Authority identified a need to improve the quality of Letters and Sounds, a Systematic Synthetic Phonics (SSP) programme published by the Department for Education in 2007. Many schools utilise this resource alongside validated commercial SSP programmes, however research suggests that the teaching of phonics can be inconsistent across England. Therefore, there was a call for the Department to review the provision of Letters and Sounds to ensure that this best meets the needs of those schools who use...