Ms Olivia Flanagan:

The early intervention is not happening now. That is going to lead to a detrimental impact on our young children. As I say, Josh has not had speech and language therapy, SLT, since he was three and he is now almost seven. He is going to need intensive speech and language therapy and it is not going to be available. I am being realistic when I say it is not going to be available. I would love it to be available but the reality is that it is not. He has already been disadvantaged because he is not able to access early intervention SLT.