In her final report Gross warned that NHS budgets have been slashed while the number of school-age children identified with speech and language problems as their primary special need has increased by 58 per cent over the past five years.
Gross is now calling for the Health and Social Care Bill, currently going through parliament, to be amended to make joint commissioning of children’s community health services by the NHS and local authorities compulsory.
Criticising the government’s proposed health reforms, Gross said: "I have met no-one outside government who believes that commissioning by clinical commissioning groups led by GPs will change the fundamental problems.
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