Mainstreaming Sure Start speech and language therapy services.

Mainstreaming is the process of transferring policy, activity or good practice from a community-based initiative, such as Sure Start, into the core service. This paper will explain how one Sure Start programme developed a strategy for speech and language therapy (S<) that had an impact on the development of mainstream S< provision. The strategy explained here has shown the potential for team working and multi-agency delivery of new services.