😍 Posing one of the great questions: who looks after who?

🪅 Happy National Sausage Roll Day everyone. 😍 To mark it, our favourite dish: battered sausage and chips - with tomato sauce. 🍅 Because where would we be in life without what we understand Down South is called 'ketchup'?

⚡️ Breaking news: check out the RCSLT's analysis of The King's Speech. 📋 It includes: 1⃣ Education for All Bill 2⃣ NHS Modernisation Bill 3⃣ Courts Modernisation Bill 4⃣ Representation of the People Bill 🔗 Read the analysis in full on this link: www.rcslt.org/wp-content/u...

🥳 Happy May everyone! 😊 It has a number of awareness events relevant to people with communication/swallowing needs and speech and language therapy. 📋 Check out the RCSLT's note on the resources we have to support your awareness-raising. www.rcslt.org/get-involved...

🚨 Last week there was a debate in the House of Commons on Allied Health Professionals. 🗣️ MPs from all sides highlighted the central role of AHPs, including speech and language therapists, in supporting people of all ages to live better lives. 🧵 1/ hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2026...

🚨 Heathrow Terminal 5 on a Friday in April 2026: The Dowager Countess of Grantham as revelant as ever.

🚨 Update on rare diseases 📋 The RCSLT responds to the NICE quality standard for rare diseases. ✅ There are things we weclome. 😊 We hope it leads to better lives for people with rare diseases who have communication and/or swallowing needs.

🚨 10 Year Workforce Plan update. 📋 As the DHSC develops the Plan, RCSLT and ASLTIP have come together to issue a joint statement setting out the tests we'll be applying to the Plan once it is published. 🔗 Read it in full here: www.rcslt.org/wp-content/u...

🚨 A week on from the House of Commons debate on SEND provision and reform, here's the briefing that the RCSLT had prepared for the debate. 🔗 www.rcslt.org/wp-content/u... 😊 We're very grateful to those MPs who highlighted speech, language, and communication, and speech and language therapy. 🧵1/

🚆 Bucket list item: Rome on the train. ❤️ Courtesy of my Father. 🇫🇷 First stop: Paris. 🙏🏻 Thanks, Dad.

💥 NEWS FLASH: #InvestInSLT campaign update! 🚨 RCSLT & @mikeys-wish.bsky.social are delighted to announce new supporters for the Downing Street letter. ▶️ Advisory group members Robin Hurtley and Dr @samburrslt.bsky.social ▶️ Chris Kamara, and Symbol UK 📰 More info here: rcslt.org/news/invest-...

🚨 RCSLT welcomes this evidence-informed report which addresses an issue that we know is a concern for many SLTs. 🔍 We'll be looking closely at the recommendations and guidance for families in relation to early communication and language development. www.gov.uk/government/n...

☕️ Spring: being able to take a coffee outside, using the cup and saucer your much missed Uncle gave you, and laughing to yourself (in a break in from #InvestInSLT activity) about all the carnage he used to cause. ❤️ Thanks, Uncle.

🚨 In case you missed it: check out below all about the #InvestInSLT campaign letter to Sir Keir Starmer, coordinated by @mikeys-wish.bsky.social and the RCSLT, supported by over 50 other organisations.

A huge honour being chosen from the #InvestInSLT team to knock on the door of No. 10 and hand in the coordinated @RCSLT and Mikey’s Wish Foundation letter, calling on Sir Keir Starmer to ensure the action plan for speech and language is finally published.

Quick trip to London for #InvestInSLT this weekend. Follow @mikeys-wish.bsky.social @peterdjust.bsky.social for updates!

💥BREAKING NEWS 📢 Over 50 organisations join the #InvestInSLT campaign call for the Government to publish the long-promised Speech and Language Therapy Action Plan. 📨 Check out the @mikeys-wish.bsky.social and RCSLT co-ordinated letter to Keir Starmer here: www.rcslt.org/news/invest-...

🇮🇹 Ones spring is sprung.

🚨 In a speech yesterday, Education Secretary @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social spoke about the Govt's SEND reforms, and mentioned speech and language therapy. 🧵 1/ www.gov.uk/government/s...

🚨 Great to see this written question from @victoria-collins.bsky.social on speech and language support in the draft statutory guidance to the Down Syndrome Act. 📋RCSLT's working on our submission highlighting how the guidance can be strengthened. questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...

🙏🏻 Spring's arriving...

🚨 Today, Rachael Maskell MP has a debate on the future of palliative care. 🔗 Check out the RCSLT's factsheet on how speech and language therapists can support a good end of life: www.rcslt.org/wp-content/u...

⏰ There are now just 8 days until the RCSLT and @dyscoveraphasia.bsky.social event at Parliament on Primary Progressive Aphasia. 🔗 Please help us to raise awareness by using this e-action to invite your MP: rcslt.org/news/invite-... 😊 All you need is your postcode and 5 minutes.

📢 Calling everyone interested in Parkinson's! 😊 @parkinsons.org.uk's 2025 UK Parkinson's Audit report is now out. 🔍 The RCSLT's Policy and Public Affairs Team is now analysing the report - so look out for our thoughts, coming soon. www.parkinsons.org.uk/professional...

⏰ There are now just 9 days until the RCSLT and @dyscoveraphasia.bsky.social event at Parliament on Primary Progressive Aphasia. 🔗 Please help us to raise awareness by using this e-action to invite your MP: rcslt.org/news/invite-... 😊 All you need is your postcode and 5 minutes.

⏰ There are now just 10 days until the RCSLT and @dyscoveraphasia.bsky.social event at Parliament on Primary Progressive Aphasia. 🔗 Please help us to raise awareness by using this e-action to invite your MP: rcslt.org/news/invite-... 😊 All you need is your postcode and 5 minutes.

❤️ RIP Neil Sedaka - and thanks for this little number. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqVZ...

⏰ There are now just 12 days until the the RCSLT and @dyscoveraphasia.bsky.social event at Parliament on Primary Progressive Aphasia. 🔗 Please help us to raise awareness by using this e-action to invite your MP: rcslt.org/news/invite-... 😊 All you need is your postcode and 5 minutes.

📢 'Good work and good communication go hand in hand.' 🚨 The RCSLT responds to the Govt's Health and Growth Accelerators announcement. 🗣️ It is essential that people with communication, cognitive, and voice needs can access speech and language therapy so they can stay in and return to work.

⏰ There are now just 13 days until the RCSLT and @dyscoveraphasia.bsky.social event at Parliament on Primary Progressive Aphasia. 🔗 Please help us to raise awareness by using this e-action to invite your MP: rcslt.org/news/invite-... 😊 All you need is your postcode and 5 minutes.

😍 Rocco's first haircut.

⚡️ Hot off the press: a more in-depth initial response by the RCSLT to the Department for Education's Schools White Paper and SEND consultation. 🚨 More to follow once we've undertaken further analysis. www.rcslt.org/news/rcslt-w...

🚨 Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson's House of Commons statement on the Schools White Paper and SEND consultation is now available online. 📋 There are mentions of speech and language therapists, including the need to retain staff. 🧵 1/ hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2026...

🚨 Today, the Department for Education's long-awaited Schools White Paper will be published. 📢 Here's the RCSLT's initial response to news of a proposed 'experts at hand' service for schools, to include speech and language therapists. 👀 Keep checking back for more updates. 🧵 1/

🫵🏻🫵🏽🫵🏿 Do you have a spare 5 minutes? 📧 Then please use this e-action to invite your MP to an event at Parliament on Primary Progressive Aphasia in March being hosted by the RCSLT and @dyscoveraphasia.bsky.social. 😊 Thank you!

🚨 With a leak of SEND plans, here are some tests RCSLT will be applying to any proposals. 1⃣ Can children and young people access the SLT they need? 2⃣ Is SLT provision in schools properly provided and funded? 3⃣ Is workforce planning and retention being improved? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🚨 Ahead of #RareDiseaseDay on 28 February, here's a briefing on the RCSLT's response to @nicecomms.bsky.social's consultation on the draft quality standard on rare diseases. 🔗 www.rcslt.org/wp-content/u... 📢 We hope the final quality standard incorporates our recommendations.

📢 People with Primary Progressive Aphasia need your help! 📧 Please email your MP inviting them to an event at Parliament on 11 March on how speech and language therapy supports people with PPA. 🔗All you need is your postcode and 5 minutes: www.rcslt.org/news/invite-...

🙏🏻 This light After 5.30pm = another winter survived. #GrazieRoma #Rome #Roma

❤️ Rocco checking out the people in the cocktail bar.

🗣️ 'It is time to tear down those barriers.' 😊 Huge RCSLT thanks to @davidpintod.bsky.social for asking Keir Starmer at PMQs yesterday what the Government are doing to help people with speech disabilities and differences to get the support they need, so that their voices can be heard.

📰 RCSLT responds to the UK Govt's plan to make schools more inclusive by design. ✅ We welcome the ambition. ❌ Physical spaces alone are not enough. 🚨 Schools need access to more speech and language therapists, working across the whole school. 🔽 See our full response below.

🙏🏻 The first daffodil we've seen this year: a sign we've almost made it through.

🙏🏻 The lesser-spotted blue sky, London, February 2026.

🚨 Next up on the RCSLT's new briefings thread. 4️⃣ Early years and speech, language, and communication: rcslt.org/wp-content/u... 🧵 4/

📢 'We must stop treating speech and language support as optional.' 🚨 Check out this great article by Jen Craft MP (@thurrockjen.bsky.social), in which she says Govt should see more speech and language therapy, 'not as an expense but as an upfront investment'. schoolsweek.co.uk/spending-on-...

💥 BREAKING NEWS! ✅The RCSLT welcomes the interim findings from the evaluation of the Department for Education's Early Language Support for Every Child (ELSEC) programme. 📰 See our full response below. www.rcslt.org/news/rcslt-w...

🚨 Next up on the RCSLT's new briefings thread. 3️⃣ Justice and prison rehabilitation and speech and language therapy: www.rcslt.org/wp-content/u... 🧵 3/

♥️🧡 Day of dog sitting Rocco, starting at Panificando. #Rocco #RoccoOnTour #Rome #Roma #VisitRome

🚨 The RCSLT welcomes this report on the First 1,000 Days. 😊 We're delighted it quotes our written evidence and Janet Cooper's oral evidence on our behalf (huge thanks, Janet). 📰 Check out our full response: www.rcslt.org/wp-content/u... committees.parliament.uk/committee/81...