Ms Stephanie Allen

As a registered Speech and Language Therapist (SL08900) your fitness to practise is impaired by reason of misconduct and/or lack of competence. In that:

1. On 23 June 2022 at Basingstoke Magistrates Court, you were convicted of driving with excess alcohol from 8 June 2022 when you drove a motor vehicle, on Winchester Road, Andover, Hampshire, after consuming so much alcohol that the proportion of it in your breath, namely 66 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, exceeded the prescribed limit. This being Contrary to section 5(1)(a) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 an Schedule 2 to the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988.

2. Between the date of your conviction, 23 June 2022 and 3 July 2023 you did conceal the conviction and did not disclose to the HCPC that you had been convicted of the offence set out at Particular 1.

3. Your conduct at Particular 2 above was dishonest in that you failed to disclose your convictions to the HCPC, knowing that you were required to do so.

4. The matters set out at Particulars 2 and 3 constitute misconduct.

5. By reason of the above matters your fitness to practise is impaired by reason of your conviction and/or misconduct.