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There are many benefits for you in terms of planning, developing and evaluating settings and services. For example, the SLCF can enable you to:

• Evaluate competences in speech, language and communication across settings and services
• Identify gaps in skills or knowledge
• Demonstrate relative strengths of different settings/services
• Match expertise to children’s needs
• Track skills across settings and services, supporting integrated working
• Set minimum recommended levels of competence for settings/services
• Support and develop collaborative practice and learning
• Plan, prioritise and select relevant training and CPD opportunities
• Map existing local training using recognised competences
• Develop or commission local training and CPD opportunities using a recognised framework
• Provide progression in CPD around speech, language and communication
• Broaden the reach of locally-developed training