FOIA Waiting lists for Adult & Child Speech & Language Therapy

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Dear Aberdeenshire Council,

I am writing to you today under the Freedom of Information Acts to request some information on the waiting lists for Adult & Child Speech & Language Therapy.

Could you please outline the following:

- Current waiting list numbers for Adult and Child Speech and Language Therapy initial appointments in Aberdeenshire Council area (please break these down by child or adult category separately)
- A list of providers of the service e.g. where this is provided by a third party or by NHS or by Council staff
- The duration of the longest current waiting time on the list for a patient to be assessed by the SLT service?
- Any current staffing shortfalls that the service has - e.g. for example are you currently recruiting for any SLT staff and if so how long has this vacancy been the case?

Please note I am not asking for any personally identifiable information and do not wish to know the identity of any particular staff members. I am interested in waiting times and subsequent statistics only.

Yours faithfully,

Tim

FOI, Aberdeenshire Council

Good morning,

Thank you for your email and FOI request detailed below.

I am writing to advise that we are unable to process your information request under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA) as you have not provided a full contact name within your email along with the request.

Under Section 8(1)(b) of the FOISA, an information request must contain the full name of the person making the request (the definition of “person” includes companies and organisations.) Where requests are sent by email, the name of the requester should appear in the text of the email along with the request details, not just in the email address. If the name is not in the body of the email, the request is invalid.

Please refer to the Scottish Information Commissioner's guidance for further information.

I would ask that you please resubmit your full request including a full name within the body of the email.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,

Information Governance Team
Aberdeenshire Council

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Dear Aberdeenshire Council,

I am writing to you today under the Freedom of Information Acts to request some information on the waiting lists for Adult & Child Speech & Language Therapy.

Could you please outline the following:

- Current waiting list numbers for Adult and Child Speech and Language Therapy initial appointments in Aberdeenshire Council area (please break these down by child or adult category separately)
- A list of providers of the service e.g. where this is provided by a third party or by NHS or by Council staff
- The duration of the longest current waiting time on the list for a patient to be assessed by the SLT service?
- Any current staffing shortfalls that the service has - e.g. for example are you currently recruiting for any SLT staff and if so how long has this vacancy been the case?

Please note I am not asking for any personally identifiable information and do not wish to know the identity of any particular staff members. I am interested in waiting times and subsequent statistics only.

Yours faithfully,

Tim Cullen

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Gillian Strachan, Aberdeenshire Council

Dear Tim Cullen

Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 ("The Act")

We refer to your request dated 27/05/2024 18:07, for the following
information FOI: Adult and Child Speech & Language Therapy waiting lists. 

We do not hold this information, however [1]Freedom of Information
(nhsgrampian.org) might be better placed to answer this request.

If, for any reason, you are not satisfied with this response, please refer
to the further information below.

Yours faithfully

 

Freedom of Information Co-ordinator
Education & Children's Services

 

Further Information:
Aberdeenshire Council's Review Procedure under the Freedom of Information
(Scotland) Act 2002 and the Environmental Information (Scotland)
Regulations 2004 can be accessed at the following link:

[2]http://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/council-...

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