Wales Policy

Policy and campaigns: Wales

Read information about our work in Wales.

See also the RCSLT Policy Twitter handle @rcsltpolicy.

Senedd Cymru / Welsh Parliament election 2021

The RCSLT Wales team have been working hard to raise awareness of the needs of people with speech, language and communication needs and swallowing difficulties. The team have also made Welsh parliamentary candidates aware of the role of the speech and language therapy profession in helping to improve the lives of individuals with these difficulties.

Read our Manifesto for the 2021 Assembly Elections (PDF)

To find out more, email caroline.walters@rcslt.org

Publications

The Voice Foundation Newsletter is a quarterly publication for anyone interested in learning more about vocal health.

COVID-19

• Audit Wales study of personal protective equipment (PPE) (PDF)

• PPE provision to health and social care services in Wales since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic (PDF)

• AGP Alliance Wales representatives’ letter to the Minister for Health and Social Services (PDF)

• Briefing on issues with regard to the use of PPE for health professionals who work in early years and education settings (PDF)

Briefings

RCSLT briefing on the Welsh Government Co-operation Agreement 2021, December 2021 (Word)

RCSLT briefing ahead of the statement by the  Minister for Education and Welsh Language: Children’s Oracy and Reading, November 2021 (Word)

RCSLT report to Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) on the potential SLT workforce within mental health services in Wales, October 2021 (Word)

RCSLT Wales Statement on the Welsh Government announcement on additional funding for early years speech, language and communication support, July 2021 (Word)

RCSLT Wales Statement on the Welsh Government announcement on additional funding for early years speech, language and communication support (Cymraeg), July 2021 (Word)

Briefing on Welsh Government Programme for Government, June 2021 (Word)

Briefing Welsh Government plans for recovery of health and social care, April 2021 (Word)

Briefing on Welsh Government National Clinical Framework- A Learning Health and Social Care System, April 2021 (Word)

Briefing on Additional Learning Needs Legislation — stage 2, October 2017 (Word)

SEN reform, October 2017

Briefing on Additional Learning Needs Legislation, August 2017 (Word)

Consultation responses

Welsh Government

• RCSLT Wales response to the Welsh Government consultation on the LGBTQ+ Action Plan, October 2021 (Word)
• RCSLT Wales response to the Welsh Government consultation on the Race Equality Action Plan for Wales, July 2021 (Word)
• RCSLT Wales AHP joint response to the Welsh Government consultation on the Race Equality Action Plan for Wales, July 2021 (Word)
• RCSLT Wales response to the Welsh Government consultation on the Talk With Me: Speech, Language and Communication Delivery Plan, June 2020 (Word)
• RCSLT response to the WG consultation on the draft Additional Learning Codes, March 2019 (PDF)
• RCSLT Wales response to the Welsh Government consultation on Advocacy for Looked After Children, June 2017 (Word)
• RCSLT response to the parliamentary review on health and social care in Wales, April 2017 (Word)
• RCSLT Wales response to the draft WG dementia strategy, April 2017 (Word)
• RCSLT Wales response to the consultation on the WG mental health delivery plan, April 2016 (Word)
• RCSLT Wales final response to the WG consultation on the ASD action plan, May 2016 (Word)
• RCSLT Wales response to WG consultation on the draft ALN bill, November 2015 (Word)
• RCSLT Wales response to WG More than just words consultation, February 2016 (Word)

National Assembly for Wales

Health, Social Care and Sport committee

• RCSLT response to the Health and Social Care Committee Inquiry into the Impact of the Waiting Times Backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for Diagnosis or Treatment, January 2022 (Word)
• RCSLT response to the Health and Social Care Committee Inquiry into Hospital Discharge and its Impact on Patient Flow through Hospitals, January 2022 (Word)
• RCSLT response to the Health and Social Care Committee scrutiny session on winter planning 2021-22, January 2022 (Word)
• RCSLT response to the Health and Social Care Committee consultation on the Workforce Strategy for Health and Social Care, November 2021 (Word)
• RCSLT AHP joint response to the Health, Social Care Committee consultation on the workforce strategy for health and social care, November 2021 (Word)
• RCSLT draft response to the Children, Young People and Education Committee consultation on priorities for the next Senedd term, August 2021 (Word)
• RCSLT response to the Health and Social Care Committee on priorities for the sixth Senedd term, July 2021 (Word)
• RCSLT response to the Children, Young People and Education Committee on priorities for the next sixth Senedd term, July 2021 (Word)
• Response to the National Assembly for Wales Children, Young People and Education Committee Inquiry into Flying Start, October 2017 (Word)
• RCSLT response to the Children, Young People and Education Committee consultation on the First 1,000 Days, January 2017 (Word)
• RCSLT Wales response to the Children Young People and Education Committee consultation on priorities, September 2016 (Word)

Equalities, local government and communities committee

• RCSLT Wales response to the Equalities and Social Justice Committee on Childcare and Parental Employment: The pandemic and beyond, October 2021 (Word)
• RCSLT Wales response to the Equalities, Local Government and Communities Committee Inquiry on Communities First, June 2017 (Word)

Campaigns

• Giving Voice aims to ‘give voice’ to people with speech, language and communication needs, in order to ensure their needs, and those of their carers and families, are met.  We equip our members with the means to demonstrate how speech and language therapy makes a difference to individuals and local society, while RCSLT officers work to engage decision makers and the media at a national level.
• Improvements in stroke care
• Dementia

Contact us: 2nd Floor, Transport House, 1 Cathedral Road, Cardiff CF11 9SB

Telephone us: 029 2039 7729

Email us: wales@rcslt.org.uk

Early language infographics

• Speech, language and communication skills: why do they matter? – Welsh version (PDF)
• Speech, language and communication skills: why do they matter? – English version (PDF)
• Developing speech, language and communication skills: what will make the difference? – Welsh version (PDF)
• Developing speech, language and communication skills: what will make the difference? RCSLT Wales response to the Equalities and Social Justice Committee on Childcare and Parental Employment: The pandemic and beyond, October 2021 (Word)