Peter Just
@peterdjust.bsky.social
Views here my own.
Work: external affairs & influencing at the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.
Research: @expremiers.bsky.social
Work: external affairs & influencing at the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.
Research: @expremiers.bsky.social
🐶 New job: rocking with Rocco.
November 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
🐶 New job: rocking with Rocco.
Reposted by Peter Just
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.
SALT services are key to supporting so many children with speech, language and communication needs.
🚨 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
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
November 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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.
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...
✅ 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...
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
💥 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...
✅ 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.
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📢 We need a stronger, modernised, multidisciplinary workforce to meet rising demand and deliver the best possible care.
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November 5, 2025 at 8:08 AM
🚨 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.
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📢 We need a stronger, modernised, multidisciplinary workforce to meet rising demand and deliver the best possible care.
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🎉 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...
😊 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...
Giving Voice campaign – How to get involved | RCSLT
The Giving Voice campaign helps to ensure people with speech, language and communication needs and their carers and families' requirements are met.
www.rcslt.org
November 3, 2025 at 8:11 AM
🎉 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...
😊 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
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
November 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
🚨 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
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...
▶️ Read our submission in full:
rcslt.org/wp-content/u...
October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
📢 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...
▶️ Read our submission in full:
rcslt.org/wp-content/u...
Reposted by Peter Just
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
@peterdjust.bsky.social @gillianrudd.bsky.social @bammo44.bsky.social @dharford79.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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
@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...
🔍 Here's the RCSLT's full analysis of the 10 Year Health Plan for England:
rcslt.org/wp-content/u...
October 20, 2025 at 9:17 AM
🚨 New briefing alert!
🔍 Here's the RCSLT's full analysis of the 10 Year Health Plan for England:
rcslt.org/wp-content/u...
🔍 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.
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www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/how...
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www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/how...
How will waiting times in community health services affect the shift towards neighbourhood health?
Community services are under growing strain, with more than 1.1 million people waiting for care, and the steepest rise among children and young people. Focus to date has largely been on efforts to imp...
www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk
October 16, 2025 at 1:19 PM
🚨 New @nuffieldtrust.org.uk Quality Watch briefing on waiting times in community health services and their effect on the shift towards neighbourhood health.
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www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/how...
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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...
1⃣ the links between homelessness & speech, language & communication needs
2⃣ how speech & language therapy can support people experiencing homelessness
▶️ rcslt.org/wp-content/u...
October 10, 2025 at 8:12 AM
🚨 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...
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?!
October 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
🤩 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...
🙏🏻 Thank you for gifting us the only guide to life one needs: 'What would the Queen Mum do?'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSYZ...
Kitty 3 - with Patricia Routledge - BBC
YouTube video by maxinebendix
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October 3, 2025 at 4:22 PM
😢 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...
🙏🏻 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.
October 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
😊 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...
❤️ Thanks to everyone who made it possible.
➡️ You can read more about why we've been shortlisted here: www.memcom.org.uk/blog/success...
Best Lobbying Campaign
Recognising influential campaigns that effectively shaped public policy, legislation, or professional practice.
www.memcom.org.uk
September 25, 2025 at 6:16 AM
😍 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...
❤️ 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...
#WaitUpSLT
waitupslt.blogspot.com/2025/09/miss...
Where is the Government action plan for Speech and Language Therapy services?
Earlier this year, the UK government committed to developing an action plan to address long ‐ standing concerns about the availability of ...
waitupslt.blogspot.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
🚨 Check out this update on the #InvestInSLT campaign and the non-update (😔) on the SLT Action Plan.
#WaitUpSLT
waitupslt.blogspot.com/2025/09/miss...
#WaitUpSLT
waitupslt.blogspot.com/2025/09/miss...
🚨 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/...
▶️Our briefing shows how Govt can make child health a priority in its NHS workforce plan:
rcpch.ac.uk/news-events/...
September 22, 2025 at 6:25 AM
🚨 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/...
▶️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.
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committees.parliament.uk/committee/20...
📢 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.
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committees.parliament.uk/committee/20...
Solving the SEND crisis: report calls for culture shift and funding to make mainstream education genuinely inclusive - Committees - UK Parliament
A new Education Committee report calls for a root and branch transformation of the way mainstream education caters to children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).&...
committees.parliament.uk
September 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
🚨 '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.
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committees.parliament.uk/committee/20...
📢 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.
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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.
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September 17, 2025 at 6:58 AM
🚨 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.
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👋 @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
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#SENDDebate #DLD #DevLangDis
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🚨 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.
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hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2025...
🗣️ 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.
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hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2025...
Children with SEND: Assessments and Support - Hansard - UK Parliament
Hansard record of the item : 'Children with SEND: Assessments and Support' on Monday 15 September 2025.
hansard.parliament.uk
September 16, 2025 at 7:18 AM
👋 @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...
#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.
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hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2025...
🗣️ 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...
Children with SEND: Assessments and Support - Hansard - UK Parliament
Hansard record of the item : 'Children with SEND: Assessments and Support' on Monday 15 September 2025.
hansard.parliament.uk
September 16, 2025 at 7:08 AM
🚨 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.
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hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2025...
🗣️ 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.
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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...
🚨 'Motorists with communication needs offered free seatbelt covers'
news.devon-cornwall.police.uk/news-article...
News Article - Devon & Cornwall Police
News from Devon & Cornwall Police media team
news.devon-cornwall.police.uk
September 15, 2025 at 7:45 AM
📰 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...
🚨 'Motorists with communication needs offered free seatbelt covers'
news.devon-cornwall.police.uk/news-article...
❤️💔❤️ Amy Winehouse does Camden.
September 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
❤️💔❤️ 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...
✅ 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...
Lord Howarth of Newport, Tory minister who switched to Labour thinking his party had ‘given up on fairness’
Howarth joined Willie Whitelaw in the Tory party chairman’s office and became a key part of the team that took Mrs Thatcher to power in 1979
www.telegraph.co.uk
September 12, 2025 at 6:36 AM
😢 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...
✅ 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...