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Written Question
Speech and Language Disorders: Children
Thursday 14th June 2018

Asked by: Rebecca Pow (Conservative - Taunton Deane)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with (a) NHS England, (b) NHS Improvement, (c) Health Education England and (d) the Care Quality Commission on the recommendations of I CAN and the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists’ report, Bercow: Ten Years On, published on 20 March 2018.

Answered by Caroline Dinenage

Officials from NHS England, the Department for Education and the Department for Health and Social Care, who are in regular contact on policy to support children with speech, language and communication needs, have been in discussion as to how best to respond to the recommendations of ‘Bercow: Ten Years On’, and will be engaging with all relevant organisations to develop a response.

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