{"id":103880,"date":"2025-08-30T23:05:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T23:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/103880\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T23:05:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T23:05:21","slug":"darlington-pre-school-send-children-supported-by-book-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/103880\/","title":{"rendered":"Darlington pre-school SEND children supported by book bags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Nick Wallis, Darlington Borough Council&#8217;s cabinet member for children and young people, said the project would provide children with a &#8220;practical and enjoyable tool&#8221; to encourage communication and connection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Sharing books from an early age can help promote speech and language development, improve speaking and listening skills, strengthen bonding and attachment, and create a rich sensory play experience,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Labour-led council said the books had been chosen by library staff and could be used for story time or sensory play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wallis added: &#8220;Our libraries are there for everyone to enjoy and we&#8217;re delighted to be able to provide these new resources to help make them even more accessible and inclusive.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Councillor Nick Wallis, Darlington Borough Council&#8217;s cabinet member for children and young people, said the project would provide&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[457,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-103880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}