Question follow-through · 95405

Speech and Language Therapy: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what measures are being undertaken to recruit speech and language therapists.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body: Department for Education
Tabled: 28 Nov 2025
Target answer date: 2 Dec 2025
Answer: 8 Dec 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

28 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what measures are being undertaken to recruit speech and language therapists.
2 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Dec 2025
Answer published
The department is working closely with the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England to improve access to community health services, including speech and language therapy, for children and young people with special educational needs and disabil...

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