RCSLT joins Inequalities in Health Alliance

The RCSLT vision has at its core a commitment to working proactively to reduce health inequalities and the impact of socioeconomic disadvantage on service users and to provide culturally and linguistically inclusive, co-produced services. Joining the Alliance along with over 200 organisations further strengthens our commitment to addressing social disadvantage and the profession’s role in working to counter these.

The IHA is a coalition of organisations with an interest in improving the health of the UK who have come together to campaign for a cross-government strategy to reduce health inequalities. We are asking the government to do three things:

• develop a cross-government strategy to reduce health inequalities
• commence the socio-economic duty, section 1 of the Equality Act 2010
• adopt a ‘child health in all policies’ approach.

RCSLTs membership of the Alliance comes ahead of a webinar on 3 November 2022 which will look at the practical steps in addressing health inequalities in service provision and will build on RCSLT’s guidance and resources on health inequalities.