- Title or Description
- Speech and language therapy
- FOI Number
- 2024620
- Date Received
- 18/06/2024
- Type of Request
- FOI
- Request or Question
- 1. Please detail the funding you have committed for children and young people s speech and language therapy across your council area in coordination with your local health board or health and social care partnership for the current business year 2024/25. List by type of funding, i.e. core service level agreement(s) with relevant health board/health and social care partnership, attainment challenge, early years, pupil equity fund. Please can this information be provided in the format of data tables including any explanation notes needed to understand the data and explanation of any codes used to identify the data. If any of the data requested is unavailable or incomplete, please can you provide an explanation as to why this is the case.
- Response
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Speech and Language Therapy in NHS Borders continues to have a Partnership Agreement with Scottish Borders Council. This has been in place for many years. The funding within this Partnership Agreement has not increased since it was established. The funding amount for the current financial year (2024-25) is 138,900.00 paid annually from Council funding. No data is held regarding what this will cover for the financial year 2024-25 but outcomes are reviewed annually, at the end of each financial year, on receipt of an annual impact report focused on impact outcomes. For the previous session (2023-24) the annual Council funding (also for 138,900.00) covered the equivalent of: * 1.2 (approx.) x Band 5 WTE
* 1 x Band 6 WTE
* 0.3 x Band 7 WTE
There is no current formal agreement between SBC and NHS Borders which ringfences how the funding from SBC is spent but there is agreement regarding how to achieve best outcomes for children and young people in the Borders. The Council funding includes intervention at all levels (including staff training) to support children and young people where communication is the main barrier to educational participation and wellbeing.
