The Early Reading Development pilot (ERDp) ran in 18 local authorities during 2005/06.
The local authorities involved in this pilot were:
Barnsley
Cheshire
Coventry
Hertfordshire
Islington
Leeds
Liverpool
Luton
Manchester
Medway
Nottingham City
Peterborough
Redcar and Cleveland
Stoke-on-Trent
Tameside
Tower Hamlets
Waltham Forest
Wiltshire.
In 2006/07, the Communication, Language and Literacy Development (CLLD) programme was developed, implementing the recommendations from the Rose Review. 32 further local authorities participated in the programme (in addition to the 18 local authorities who had been involved in the ERDp):
Bath and North East Somerset
Birmingham
Blackburn with Darwen
Bury
Dorset
Ealing
East Sussex
Essex
Gloucestershire
Greenwich
Hackney
Hammersmith and Fulham
Haringey
Hartlepool
Kent
Kingston-upon-Hull
Knowsley
Lambeth
Lewisham
Middlesbrough
North Tyneside
Oldham
Sandwell
Sefton
Sheffield
Shropshire
Southampton
Southwark
Surrey
Swindon
Thurrock
Torbay.
From April 2008, a further 50 local authorities will join the CLLD programme:
Barking and Dagenham
Bolton
Bradford
Brent
Bristol, City of
Calderdale
Camden
Cornwall
Croydon
Cumbria
Derby
Derbyshire
Doncaster
Dudley
Durham
Enfield
Gateshead
Halton
Hampshire
Hounslow
Kirklees
Lancashire
Leicester
Lincolnshire
Newcastle upon Tyne
Newham
Norfolk
North East Lincolnshire
Northamptonshire
Northumberland
Nottinghamshire
Plymouth
Rochdale
Rotherham
Salford
South Tyneside
St. Helens
Staffordshire
Stockport
Stockton-on-Tees
Suffolk
Sunderland
Wakefield
Walsall
Wandsworth
Westminster
Wigan
Wirrall
Wolverhampton
Worcestershire.