Question follow-through · 49891
Speech and Language Therapy: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to lower waiting times for speech therapy for children.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 1 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 6 May 2025
- Answer
- 14 May 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to lower waiting times for speech therapy for children.
6 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 May 2025
Answer published
The department continues to improve access to speech and language therapy by including the ‘Early Language and Support for Every Child’ (ELSEC) pathfinder project, in partnership with NHS England and within the department’s existing Change Programme. This...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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