"We wanted to move away from the idea that a modern foreign language had to be French," says Bernadette Clinton, the local authority's language adviser.
"Before, local authorities provided primary language advisers who were able to co-ordinate what was happening between primary and secondaries – that's all disappeared now as well".
The government, which has been working with the charity Refugee Action to produce new guidance for local authorities on providing language tuition, hopes the extra cash will help Syrian families to integrate in their new communities more quickly and make it easier for them to find work.
"Therefore, we are recommending that local authorities ensure one language is taught continuously from primary to secondary schools.
The language around academies is different from that of local authority schools.
Other exclusion criteria included monozygotic twinning, chronic illness requiring multiple hospital visits or admissions, deafness, a clinical diagnosis of autism, English being a second language, children with known neurological disorders and children under local authority care.
"Before, we had a huge network of local authority advisers and of course Cilt, which was the leading body for languages nationally.
countries need permission from the local authority.
Local authority lawyers are involved.
