😢 R.I.P. Dame Patricia Routledge. 🙏🏻 Thank you for gifting us the only guide to life one needs: 'What would the Queen Mum do?' www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSYZ...

😊 Great to catch-up with Dave Harford earlier to discuss the #InvestInSLT campaign and much more.

😍 Am so proud of the #InvestInSLT home-team for being shortlisted for 'Best Lobbying Campaign' at today's Memcom Excellence Awards. ❤️ Thanks to everyone who made it possible. ➡️ You can read more about why we've been shortlisted here: www.memcom.org.uk/blog/success...

🚨 Check out this update on the #InvestInSLT campaign and the non-update (😔) on the SLT Action Plan. #WaitUpSLT waitupslt.blogspot.com/2025/09/miss...

🇮🇹 Just saying. share.google/Ge0wfWGr67Wn...

🚨 RCSLT's proud to have joined the #ChildHealthWorkforceAlliance - 25 organisations seeking to build a workforce for the healthiest generation of children ever. ▶️Our briefing shows how Govt can make child health a priority in its NHS workforce plan: rcpch.ac.uk/news-events/...

🚨 'Solving the SEND crisis' report published 📢 The Education Select Committee has this morning published its report on 'Solving the SEND crisis'. 🧵 A thread on the RCSLT's response and the response of the SEND in The Specialists coalition. 1/ committees.parliament.uk/committee/20...

🚨 Fantastic to see this quote from DfE minister @georgiagould.bsky.social on speech and language therapists breaking down communication barriers in response to a written question from David Williams MP on the RCSLT report 'A Profession Under Pressure' by @gillianrudd.bsky.social. 1/

👋 @naplic.bsky.social @wordaware.bsky.social @susanebbels.bsky.social @beckyclark22.bsky.social - did you see the reference to developmental language disorder during yesterday's SEND Debate in the @houseofcommons.parliament.uk? #SENDDebate #DLD #DevLangDis bsky.app/profile/pete...

🚨 Yesterday, there was a @houseofcommons.parliament.uk #SENDDebate led by Roz Savage. 🗣️ MPs from all parties talked about the experiences of children with #SEND and their families in their constituencies. 📋 There were references to #SLT and #SLCN issues. 1/ hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2025...

📰 This looks very interesting - and exciting! - news from Devon & Cornwall police. 🚨 'Motorists with communication needs offered free seatbelt covers' news.devon-cornwall.police.uk/news-article...

❤️💔❤️ Amy Winehouse does Camden.

😢 Sorry to see that Lord (Alan) Howarth of Newport has died. ✅ I worked with him on a lot of issues when I worked at Historic England inc: ⛪️ places of worship ⛵️ Marine and Coastal Access Bill 😊 He was a true friend of heritage and may he RIP. www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2...

😊 It's been a total honour and pleasure to be involved in the #InvestInSLT campaign these last 18 months. 🏆 It's one of the best things I've worked on at the RCSLT - and indeed anywhere and everywhere. 🙏🏻 Massive thanks to everyone who's been involved. 💪🏻 Let's keep up the great work!

🚨 The RCSLT is proud to be one of the signatories on this @rcphysicians.bsky.social and @nhsproviders.bsky.social coordinated letter to Wes Streeting at the DHSC calling for productive engagement with us on the 10 year workforce plan. rcp.ac.uk/news-and-med...

🚨 Update on the RCSLT's Select Committee work. 🗒️The @hlautismactcom.parliament.uk has published our written evidence on how we think support for autistic people can be improved. ➡️ Read it in full: committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide...

🎉 Happy September everyone! 🗒️ If you're marking any of the awareness events relevant to people with communication disability, difficulty, or difference, or eating, drinking, and swallowing difficulties, check out the RCSLT's resources' note. www.rcslt.org/get-involved...

🥳 Amazing! 🚨 Petition palindrome swiftly followed by the securing of a Government response. 🤔 How soon will the 100,000 signatures be secured? ✍🏻 Sign and share: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

🤩 When I first saw this petition on Thursday evening, it had just over 1,000 signatures. ⭐️ What a massive achievement to have got so close to a Government response so quickly. 👏🏻 Huge well done to @prostateuk.bsky.social! ✍🏻 Sign and share here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

😊 You know how much I love petitions on the Parliament website! ✍🏻 Here's another massively important one to sign and share. 🙏🏻 Thanks @prostateuk.bsky.social. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

🚨 Great to see this @healthwatchengland.bsky.social post capture how people value speech and language therapy and highlight some of the issues they face accessing it. 😃 Very good to see the RCSLT's 'A profession under pressure' report highlighted. 👏 @gillianrudd.bsky.social.

📢 Calling all #SLPeeps and #SLT2B 🚨 Check out this ConservativeHome article by Sir John Hayes MP making the case for a National Right to Rehab. #RightToRehab #BrainInjuryAwareness #NeuroRehabilitation #UKPolitics #HealthPolicy #BrainInjury #Rehab conservativehome.com/2025/08/07/j...

🚨 Modernisation Committee update 😊For all those interested in the work of the #InclusiveParliament coalition being led by the RCSLT and STAMMA, check out this press release from the House of Commons Modernisation Committee. committees.parliament.uk/committee/73...

💨 Storm Floris strikes: our train has ground to a halt due to a gazebo on the *overhead* power lines.

🫵🏿🫵🏽🫵🏻 Do you know a deaf child or young person, or adult supporting deaf children, who has gone above & beyond to raise the expectations of what deaf children can achieve? 🏆 Then nominate them for an @auditoryverbaluk.bsky.social Claire Campbell Outstanding Achievement Award. ⬇️ Details below.

🥳 Happy Yorkshire Day everyone! 😊 Big shout out to everyone who was born in Yorkshire, or who lives there. 🤞🏻 For those who weren't, or don't, oh well, never mind. 🧵 To mark this great day, a story about Hull. 1/

😊 Great to catch up with Jennifer Benson earlier and discuss all things speech and language therapy!

🚨 Update on RCSLT's Select Committee work. 🗣️ Janet Cooper's oral evidence to the Health and Social Care Select Committee's inquiry on The First 1,000 Days is now available online: committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence...

📘 We are officially published! 🗓 35 years of our life... 🕯...and thinking today of the two people to whom 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' is dedicated: my Grandma (Ivy Mary Just) and my Father (Derrick Just).

🇮🇹 Just been discussing bella Italia with a colleague. 💡 It reminded me of this scene: descaling a tap, Roman-style. ♥️🧡 'I am a genius,' responded The Roman, when we reminded them of it. #Italy #Italia #Rome #Roma #VisitRome #RomaIMorte

😊 Great that RCSLT's signed-up to this letter and huge congrats to our @voice21oracy.bsky.social colleagues on getting such an impressive #Oracy coalition together.

🚨 We're pleased to share RCSLT's written evidence to the Commons' Health and Social Care Committee's inquiry on The First 1000 Days. ▶️ You can read it in full: committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide...

🚨 RCSLT agrees - it's time to fix the SEND system and #ReformSEND ⬇️ Important new campaign #FightForOrdinary is calling for: 1️⃣ Support for every child who needs it - not just those with EHC Plans - with the current SEN support arrangements put on a statutory footing.

😊 Not my average Sunday morning, and, I think, the first time I've been on live TV since my Big Breakfast appearance in 2001. 😍 But great to speak about 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' on GB News this morning. #ThatcherAfterDowningStreet #MargaretThatcher #Thatcher100 #Thatcher 1/

🤔 'I love abstaining' 🤭 Who knew?! #ThatcherAfterDowningStreet #Thatcher #MargaretThatcher #Thatcher100

Earlier this evening, hosted the launch of 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' by @peterdjust.bsky.social, pictured here between @iaindale.bsky.social and me.

♥️ Although they can't be with me today, it's really all for and about them. #ThatcherAfterDowningStreet #Thatcher100 #MargaretThatcher

📻 We've been on the radio, talking about #ThatcherAfterDowningStreet - due out later this month.

🤦🏻‍♂️ Disappointment - and surprise - at Chez Just as we only got *two* plugs for the book in one video.

🚨 Check out the RCSLT's statement welcoming the UK Government's 'Giving every child the best start in life' strategy. 📋It includes: ✅ Recognition of communication skills as foundational to a child’s development ✅ Strengthening early language support 1/ www.rcslt.org/news/rcslt-w...

😍 Roma...at least I don't have to wear my big coat. #Rome #Roma #RomaOMorte #VisitRome #QuantoSeiBellaRoma #RomeIsAnAttitude

🗞️ Breaking news 🚨 Check out the RCSLT's news story on @gillianrudd.bsky.social's appearance before the Modernisation Committee last week on behalf of the #InclusiveParliament coalition. www.rcslt.org/news/inclusi...

😊 Great that RCSLT is being represented by Janet Cooper at the House of Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee's oral evidence session on the First 1000 Days this morning. ⬇️ You can watch live from around 10.30am on the link below. committees.parliament.uk/event/24699/...

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🚨 With health inequalities in the news, a reminder about the RCSLT's guidance on the role of speech and language therapy in tackling them. ➡️Read it in full: rcslt.org/learning/equ... #HealthInequalities #SLPeeps #SpeechAndLanguageTherapy

🤪 It's been quite a ride since @lordnortonlouth.bsky.social suggested in March 2023 that I submit an abstract to the Margaret Thatcher: Life, Work, and Legacy conference, but #ThatcherAfterDowningStreet is on its way and can soon be yours!

🎉 We've been helping to celebrate #RockingAphasia this month. 🪨 Here's something in Chelmsford by our colleague, Vicky. #Aphasia #AphasiaAwareness #AphasiaAwarenessMonth 1/

📺 If you missed today's evidence to the Modernisation Committee on the accessibility of Parliament, you can watch it on the link below. 😊 Huge thanks to @gillianrudd.bsky.social for representing the #InclusiveParliament coalition. parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...

🚨 Interested in how The House of Commons can be more accessible? 📺 Then tune into @gillianrudd.bsky.social's evidence on behalf of the #InclusiveParliament coalition from 11.45am. 😊 It's brilliant for RCSLT to work with STAMMA & other colleagues on this. committees.parliament.uk/event/23973/...

🎤 Waiting for La Regina: Loredana Berté.