Research commissioned by the children's commissioner for England also found that 57 per cent of areas reported a real terms cut in spending on speech and language therapy (SLT) in the year up to March 2019, with just 23 per cent of areas seeing a real-terms increase in spend per child.
The We Need To Talk: Access to Speech and Language Therapy report states that councils and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) spent £166m on SLT services in 2018/19, equating to £10.12 per child.
It analysed the amount spent by all agencies on SLT services on a regional basis, finding substantial variations between English regions.
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