Speech and Language Therapy - FOI Response Register

1. The longest waiting time for initial contact for children and young people’s speech and language therapy in May 2023.

18 months – autism pathway

13 months – SLT due to one outlier, 6 months if remove outlier

2. In May 2023, please tell us how many people were waiting for initial contact for children and young people’s speech and language therapy.  Please break this down by numbers waiting less than 12 weeks, 12 to 18 weeks, 19 weeks to 26 weeks, 27 weeks to 52 weeks, 1 year to 2 years and over two years.

Adult caseload not considered

3. The longest waiting time for initial contact for children and young people’s speech and language therapy in May 2019, May 2020, May 2021, May 2022.

Adults not considered

4. The longest wait for individualised therapy in May 2023.

In accordance with FOISA s 17(1), NHS Shetland confirms that it does not hold the information requested.  We do not keep individualised lists for this.

5. The longest wait for individualised therapy in May 2019, May 2020. May 2021 and May 2022.

In accordance with FOISA s 17(1), NHS Shetland confirms that it does not hold the information requested.  We do not keep individualised lists for this.

6. Please detail the health substantive core funding for children and young people’s speech and language therapy in the last five business years - 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23.

Please note that substantive funding below is not split between adults and children. We estimate that £80% of the below funding relates to children and young people.

7. Please detail the health substantive core funding committed for children and young people’s speech and language therapy for the current business year – 2023/24.

Please note that substantive funding below is not split between adults and children. We estimate that £80% of the below funding relates to children and young people.

8. Please detail the external funding for children and young people’s speech and language therapy in the last five business years - 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23. List by type of funding, ie core service level agreement(s) with relevant local authorities, attainment challenge, early years, pupil equity fund, 3rd Sector etc.

9. Please detail the external funding committed for children and young people’s speech and language therapy for the current business year – 2023/24. List by type of funding, ie core service level agreement(s) with relevant local authorities, attainment challenge, early years, pupil equity fund, 3rd Sector etc.

In answering the above questions, ‘children and young people’s speech and language therapy’ should not include speech and language therapy input within NDD or CAMHS. Waiting time and funding data for these can be provided but please separate out.

Please can this information be provided in the format of data tables including any explanation notes needed to understand the data and explanation of any codes used to identify the data? If any of the data requested is unavailable or incomplete, please can you provide an explanation as to why this is the case.