Introduction
This webpage has been designed to help you find the relevant information on how to support multilingual children, using ‘quick links’ to direct you to the correct webpage. To stay informed of all updates please sign up to our EDEAS newsletter.
Supporting multilingual new arrivals
- Welcoming new arrivals support webpage
- Welcome meeting checklist and instructions
- Understanding core offer and what is funded
- Booking an interpreter or bilingual support
- Arranging for consent forms to be translated
- Proficiency assessments
- Maintained schools seeking Advisory teacher advice: Funded clinics
- Maintained schools can access our Supporting multilingual guidance, by emailing educate.educationethnicdiverseachievement-mailbox@devon.gov.uk.
Training and staff CPD
- EDEAS half termly newsletter – stay update.
- Key inset day and twilight webinars – On areas such as supporting multilingual children, equality diversity and inclusion and Gypsy, Roma, Traveller and Showmen support. These are free to maintained schools and are at a heavily discounted rate for all other settings and schools.
- Early Years – Welcoming and supporting multilingual children, fully funded for all settings.
- Bespoke training – our team are also able to design bespoke training to meet the needs of your settings/schools CPD. To discuss bespoke training please email educate.educationethnicdiverseachievement-mailbox@devon.gov.uk.
- Training packages other than the dates/times of Key inset day and twilight webinars – our team can also deliver our currently developed training packages to schools and settings on a day that is convenient to you. To discuss arranging training please email educate.educationethnicdiverseachievement-mailbox@devon.gov.uk.
Supporting multilingual children
- Supporting primary multilingual children – includes information regarding KS2 SATs
- Supporting secondary multilingual children
- Bilingual resources
- Home language GCSEs
- Proficiency assessments
- Bilingual support
- Bilingual resources
- Booking an interpreter or bilingual support
- One-minute guides on understanding different cultures
- Young asylum seeking children and refugee support
- Advisory consultancy – review of policies, pupil observations, pupil forums, guidance and advice
- SEN and multilingualism – Home languages assessment
- Maintained schools seeking Advisory teacher advice: Funded clinics
- Maintained schools can access our Supporting multilingual guidance, by emailing educate.educationethnicdiverseachievement-mailbox@devon.gov.uk.
Supporting multilingual parents, adults and post-16 children
Funding
Every school receives ‘EAL’ funding, which is funding to support your Multilingual (English as an additional language) children. You will receive this in your yearly budget and it is based on you October census data.
There is a Schools budget calculator (24/25)/ Schools budget calculator (25/26), which is on the public domain, where you can see how much funding the school received. This is often thousands of pounds. To use this spread sheet, ensure you are on the Summary page. Then enter your school DfE number in the top left, without the ‘/’. Press enter and then you will find the ‘EAL’ funding under the AEN tab.
Schools who are supporting some refugees, such as Afghan refugees may also be in receipt of additional funding. £4,500 for children aged 5 to 18 and £2,250 for children aged 3 and 4. The families local key worker will inform you if your school is entitled to this funding and will arrange for payment – this is usually arranged through district councils
EDEAS don’t retain any funds for requests. Please do not contact EDEAS as this is not our area and we do not provide any funding directly.
Accessing support including our core offer
- Core offer
- Accessing support – details on the different forms of support, including booking forms etc
- EDEAS half termly newsletter – stay update.
- Maintained schools seeking Advisory teacher advice: Funded clinics
Costs
Maintained schools have directed some funding to EDEAS as part of the de-delegation budget. This entitles maintained schools to a core offer. Maintained schools can purchase further support, as well as translation services.
All other settings, academies and independent school are required to purchase all support.
Maintained schools start their new financial year in April, whereas academies and other settings often start their new financial year with the new academic year.
The costs are:
| Service | Cost maintained schools (from April 2025) | Cost academies and other settings (Until September 2025) |
| 6hrs Advisory consultancy –home language assessment, long-term consultancy, bespoke training, or academic and engagement intervention | £512 + VAT | £497 + VAT |
| 3hrs Advisory consultancy – child observation or short-term consultancy | £308 + VAT | £299 + VAT |
| 1hr Advisory consultancy – general enquiries (guidance and support), advisory meeting (advice on meeting the needs of ethnically diverse children, SEN and multilingualism, planning for induction, inclusion and transition), consultancy at multi-agency meetings, assessment support or advice about resources and cultural celebrations | £128 + VAT | £124 + VAT |
| 6hrs Bilingual support – from Bilingual support workers. This can also include a bulk purchase of 6hrs of interpreting, which must be used in blocks of hours during the same financial year for languages inhouse only | £318 + VAT | £309 + VAT |
| 3hrs Bilingual support – from BSWs | £191 + VAT | £185 + VAT |
| 2 hrs Bilingual support – from BSWs | £158 + VAT | £154 + VAT |
| 1hrs Online Interpreter support – from BSWs or external interpreting agencies | £96 + VAT | £93 + VAT |
| 1hrs Onsite Interpreter support – from BSWs, this includes support with Home languages GCSE (1hr per child) and Maths KS2 SATs support (1hr per paper) | £119 + VAT | £116 + VAT |
| 1hr Translation – from BSWs | £62 + VAT | £60 + VAT |