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Children needing speech and language support (FOI)

Children needing speech and language support (FOI)

Produced by the Freedom of Information office
Authored by Government of Jersey and published on 12 December 2022.
Prepared internally, no external costs.

Request

Children needing speech and language support:

A

For each quarter, from Q1 2018, please provide a table showing:

  • Child’s age (0-18)
  • Number of children in that age group to receive any form of speech and language support during the quarter

B

For the first day of each quarter, from Q1 2018, please also provide:

  • Average waiting time for an initial assessment for people aged 18 and under
  • Number of people aged 18 or under waiting for an initial assessment 
  • Number of speech and language therapists employed

Response

The table below shows the count of unique individuals seen by the Children’s Speech and Language Therapy service in each quarter from January 2018 by age band. Each individual is counted once only per quarter. Age recorded is that at the time of the appointment.

The figures do not include clients aged 18 seen by the Adult Speech and Language service.

Where numbers are small, disclosure control has been applied to protect the privacy of individuals and numbers fewer than five are represented as ‘<5’. Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

Age Band ​ ​ ​
Quarter0-45-89-1213-18
2018 Q14002376748
2018 Q2
385232499
2018 Q3381
1824211
2018 Q43681875022
2019 Q13971805310
2019 Q23741843811
2019 Q33521733710
2019 Q4386190418
2020 Q1437172488
2020 Q22619330<5
2020 Q32389821<5
2020 Q4263143316
2021 Q1304196399
2021 Q2260171378
2021 Q32702093510
2021 Q4282182369
2022 Q12702265012
2022 Q2270216438
2022 Q32952483915
2022 Q4 (to date)178137229

Data Source: Community Services electronic client record system

B

The table below shows the number of children on the waiting list for Speech and Language Therapy, along with the average waiting time for each quarter from January 2018. Please be advised that the quarterly figures are taken at the end of each quarter, so data for the final quarter of 2022 is not yet available.

QuarterNumber of children on waiting listAverage waiting time (Days)
2018 Q1136
36
2018 Q211031
2018 Q38549
2018 Q413040
2019 Q111856
2019 Q27264
2019 Q312750
2019 Q410862
2020 Q18954
2020 Q21947
2020 Q36053
2020 Q411954
2021 Q1127303
2021 Q285258
2021 Q357277
2021 Q494230
2022 Q17673
2022 Q26160
2022 Q36955

The table below shows the number of Paediatric Speech and Language Therapists (SALTs) employed each year from 2018 to present.

YearNumber of Paediatric SALTs
20186
20197
20209
20219
202215

Article Applied

Article 25 - Personal information

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005.

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if –

(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005; and

(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.

3)      In determining for the purposes of this Article whether the lawfulness principle in Article 8(1)(a) of the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018 would be contravened by the disclosure of information, paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 2 to that Law (legitimate interests) is to be read as if sub-paragraph (b) (which disapplies the provision where the controller is a public authority) were omitted.

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