Eight speech and language therapists (SaLT) and three SaLT assistants working across Sure Start children's centres, schools and community clinics across south London will lose their jobs.
The Unite union warned that the cuts will have a huge impact on vulnerable children and will impact directly on the community they live in. Speech and language therapists from Southwark have voted to strike over the plans on 3 February.
Unite regional officer Richard Munn said, 'By removing funding to the posts that offer this support, many vulnerable people in Southwark will find it even harder to access early intervention therapies and feel they are effectively being abandoned by this government, in the year when communication was supposed to be promoted and not attacked.'
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