Speech and Language Disorders: Children and Young People
(asked on 25th March 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children and young people in contact with liaison and diversion services have speech, language and communication needs.
Over the last four years 2,736 children and young people who engaged with liaison and diversion services commissioned by NHS England, were identified as having a speech, language and communication need, of which 284 cases were referred on to services, as summarised in the following table.
Interventions to address speech, language and communication (SLC) needs
Referrals | Number of Cases 2015/16 | Number of Cases 2016/17 | Number of Cases 2017/18 | Number of Cases Q1 - Q3 2018/19 | Total to date |
Referral to other agency | 10 | 29 | 26 | 25 | 90 |
Referral for Targeted Service | 14 | 41 | 36 | 34 | 125 |
Referral to specialist SLC service | 22 | 9 | 25 | 13 | 69 |
Total Referrals | 46 | 79 | 87 | 72 | 284 |
Need already met | 111 | 214 | 316 | 267 | 908 |
Advice given | 32 | 65 | 60 | 58 | 215 |
Did not meet threshold for referral | 1 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 22 |
No appropriate service available locally | 0 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 16 |
Referral/action indicated but refused by client | 6 | 13 | 32 | 22 | 73 |
Other | 102 | 261 | 351 | 334 | 1,048 |
Cases needing further follow-up | 24 | 38 | 43 | 65 | 170 |
Grand Total | 322 | 681 | 905 | 828 | 2,736 |
Note:
Figures are for England only
Information is collected on the number of cases seen by liaison and diversion services, not the number of individuals seen. An individual may have been seen by liaison and diversion services on more than one occasion in any given time period.