❄️ Hull, what is going on?!

😊 As we always say, RCSLT couldn't do our policy & influencing work without our members or people who have had speech and language therapy. So, it's great to hear from Peter Bradley at the start of our all staff day, about his experiences and work with RCSLT Northern Ireland.

"How do the Government intend to alleviate pressure in this area? Do they intend to fund more places, especially at the university level? These are complex issues, and highly skilled people are needed." @saqibbhattimp.bsky.social at the #InvestInSLT Speech and Language Therapy debate on 27 Jan 2025

🚨 #InclusiveParliament coalition update 📨 Great for RCSLT to see @gillianrudd.bsky.social's letter to the Modernisation Committee after her oral evidence has been published: committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide... 📰 There's more in STAMMA's news story: stamma.org/about-us/new... 1/

🚨 Good news alert! 😊The RCSLT's delighted to see this report from Chris Whitty recognise speech, language, and communication needs, and the role of speech and language therapists in working with people in prison, on probation, and in the secure NHS estate. www.gov.uk/government/p...

🐶 New job: rocking with Rocco.

We strongly support the call for more investment in Speech & Language Therapy services. SALT services are key to supporting so many children with speech, language and communication needs.

💥 Breaking news: RCSLT responds to Curriculum Review! ✅ inclusive definition of oracy - spoken & non-verbal communication, sign language, AAC ✅ oracy framework ✅ adaptations for children with SEND 🚨 But more still to do as shown in our news story. www.rcslt.org/news/rcslt-r...

🚨 Delighted and proud that the RCSLT is amongst these 30+ organisations calling for Govt action to fix the neuro workforce crisis. 📢 We need a stronger, modernised, multidisciplinary workforce to meet rising demand and deliver the best possible care. 1/

🎉 Happy November everyone! 😊 It's full of awareness events relevant to people with communication and/or swallowing needs. 📋 Check out our note on resources we have to support any awareness-raising you're doing. #SLTAwareness #SLPeeps #SLT #SLT2B www.rcslt.org/get-involved...

🚨 9 months since the #InvestInSLT petition was debated in Parliament, we are calling on the UK Government to: 1️⃣ Use the Budget to ensure sufficient resources for services 2️⃣ Bring forward its SLT Action Plan ➡️ Read our statement in full: www.rcslt.org/wp-content/u... #Budget25 #Budget2025 #SLT

📢 RCSLT highlighted the need to #InvestInSLT in our submission to The Treasury's Autumn Budget 2025/Spending Review consultation and referenced @mikeys-wish.bsky.social's petition. ▶️ Read our submission in full: rcslt.org/wp-content/u...

Mikey's MP @saqibbhattimp.bsky.social has written to @skinnock.bsky.social asking for an update on the action plan that was promised to the #InvestinSLT team for improving speech and language services @peterdjust.bsky.social @gillianrudd.bsky.social @bammo44.bsky.social @dharford79.bsky.social

🚨 New briefing alert! 🔍 Here's the RCSLT's full analysis of the 10 Year Health Plan for England: rcslt.org/wp-content/u...

🚨 New @nuffieldtrust.org.uk Quality Watch briefing on waiting times in community health services and their effect on the shift towards neighbourhood health. 1/ www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/how...

🚨 To mark #WorldHomelessDay here's the coalition RCSLT brought together last year calling for greater awareness of: 1⃣ the links between homelessness & speech, language & communication needs 2⃣ how speech & language therapy can support people experiencing homelessness ▶️ rcslt.org/wp-content/u...

🤩 How can you go to Manchester and not meet up with The Legend Who Is Alex?!

😢 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.