HLCP - Higher Level Communication Practitioner HLCP - Higher Level Communication Practitioner

HLCP - Higher Level Communication Practitioner

New national initiative!

Become a Higher Level Communication Practitioner (HLCP) and gain national recognition for your role as the teaching assistant or early years practitioner in your setting with specific responsibility for supporting children and young people with SLCN and liaising with colleagues. This new role will involve linking with local SLCN and SaLT services.

This new national award is for teaching assistants and early years practitioners in early years, primary, secondary, and special settings.

Full information about the award, eligibility criteria, pilot programme timeline and costs can be found in the HLCP Programme Information document.

If you are interested in becoming an HLCP, you can register your interest in the HLCP programme.

Register interest in the HLCP Programme

If you are a Speech and Language Therapist or SLCN/SaLT team manager or member and would like to discuss how you can support the HLCP programme or HLCP participants, please contact Elklan.