Question reference: S4W-29512
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 27 January 2016
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Current status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 8 February 2016
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what support it is giving to health and social care partnerships to ensure that provision of speech and language therapy meets demand.
Answer
We are working with speech and language therapy leads across Scotland to identify how best to map local demographics and referral data to support services in understanding the real demand and appropriate deployment of resources. This mapping will enable speech and language therapy leads to understand and profile the demand and need in relation to their available workforce and to consider, for each partnership area, new and innovative ways of using their available capacity to best meet the wellbeing needs of children and young people in Scotland.