Request Support

To access support schools will need to:

• Fill in a self referral form
• Attend a showcase and submit a self-assessment of your schools reading and phonics provision.
• The hub will then review self assessments and determine the level of support we can offer you.

• The Hub will prioritise schools most at need to arrange an SSP audit visit, carried out my a member of our English Hub Team.

The following state funded schools are eligible to access free CPD,  an English Hub audit and resource funding for validated SSP programmes:

• Infant schools 
• Primary schools 
• Junior schools 
• Special schools 
• Pupil Referral Units with primary school aged children.

To access Literacy Specialist support, a school must be a state funded school and must have a KS1 cohort which completes the PSC.

Literacy Specialist support for schools will be prioritised for schools which meet two of the following criteria; however, all schools are eligible for funding and/or support based on need identified during an initial audit:

• Primary schools with lower than average PSC scores for disadvantaged pupils. Schools with the lowest phonics scores for disadvantaged pupils.
• Primary schools where the bottom 20% of children are not on course to reach the expected standard (indicated through regular phonics assessment in school).
• Primary schools with a lower than average percentage of pupils meeting the expected standard in the Phonics Screening Check (79% met the expected standard in 2023).
• Primary schools with a higher than average proportion of children eligible for pupil premium (2023/24 the pupil premium national average is 28.5%).
• Primary schools that sit in an education investment area (PEIAs/EIAs).
• Previous partner schools who last received intensive support two or more years ago, have experienced significant systemic change since leaving the programme and who have failed to realise and/or maintain improvement in SSP scores.
• Primary schools with a high proportion of groups considered hard to reach such as EAL, FSM, travellers.
• Schools referred by local partners (e.g. NLEs, RSCs, LAs).
• Primary schools where standards in phonics are identified as areas for development through Ofsted inspection findings.
• Primary schools where there is a risk of declining standards in phonics.