The Communication Champion for children and the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists – RCSL – have released a publication which stresses the need for health and education services to work more closely together to ensure the needs of children with speech, language and communication needs difficulties are met in the best possible way.
Better Communication: shaping speech, language and communication services for children and young people provides practical help on how health and local authority commissioners can work together and share resources to tackle speech and language difficulties, which affect 7-10 per cent of all children.
It looks at ‘what to commission’ by featuring examples of some of the most established early intervention and prevention programmes that are now in a position to demonstrate measurable impact, and provides case studies of speech and language therapy services that are redesigning their services to deliver both quality and cost-efficiency.
The report includes examples of coordinated, community-wide, multi-agency strategies to upskill the children’s workforce and empower parents to give their young children the best start in life. These successful multi agency strategies include Stoke-on-Trent’s ‘Stoke Speaks Out’, which has seen the incidence of language delay on entry to nursery fall from 64 per cent to 39 per cent.
To read a copy of the report see website www.rcslt.org.
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