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gillianrudd.bsky.social
"Speech and language therapists are overstretched, underfunded and working in systems that fail to meet the demands of local needs."

Shockat Adam @shockatadam.bsky.social at the #InvestInSLT Speech and Language Therapy debate on 27 January 2025: hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2025...
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
gillianrudd.bsky.social
"The current system is underfunded, overstretched and unprepared for the future."

Sureena Brackenridge MP speaking at the #InvestInSLT speech and language therapy debate on 27 January 2025.
November 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
carolinebowen.bsky.social
Hello 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES, SLT advocates, parents of children & young people with #SLCN & other dedicated #childSPEECHdis #devLANGdis 💃🕺movers & shakers. The #INVESTinSLT push has important implications internationally. Please amplify📣 this message 🇬🇧 #budget2025🇬🇧 #budget25🇬🇧 @ukparliament.parliament.uk
RCSLT letterhead Statement on the need to Invest in SLT - 27 October 2025 This statement is issued on behalf of Mikey Akers, Louisa Akers, Francesca Beard, Samantha Berry, Dave Harford, Georgia Leckie, Karen Massey, Sharon Oliphant,Gillian Rudd, Pam Slater, and the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.* Nine months ago today (27 October) the House of Commons debated the Invest in SLT petition. We were delighted that our briefing for the debate was supported by over 40 organisations and by the very powerful contributions from MPs of all parties calling on the Government to increase investment in services and better plan for the speech and language therapy workforce. We were also encouraged by the Government’s response and by the pledge the Government made to the Invest in SLT team in March that they would work with us on an action plan to tackle the issues affecting access to speech and language therapy. We regret that seven months on that action plan has not yet appeared. So, today, and with the Budget on 26 November in sight, we are calling on the Government to do two things: 1) Ensure that the forthcoming Budget provides sufficient resources to the Department of Health and Social Care, the Department for Education, and other relevant Government Departments, so they can increase investment in speech and language therapy. 2) Publish the speech and language therapy action plan which they discussed with us in March. People of all ages with communication disability, difficulty, or difference, and those with eating, drinking, and swallowing difficulties, and their families and carers have already waited too long for the barriers to accessing speech and language therapy to be removed. They should not have to wait any longer. Working with you, we will do all we can to make things better for people with communication and/or swallowing needs. But we need the Government to act – and to act now. Those we work with and represent deserve no less.
November 1, 2025 at 9:35 PM
peterdjust.bsky.social
😍 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...
Best Lobbying Campaign
Recognising influential campaigns that effectively shaped public policy, legislation, or professional practice.
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September 25, 2025 at 6:16 AM
pamslater26.bsky.social
Such an important day today for #investinslt in the UK!

You can watch the debate from 4:30 pm today.
January 27, 2025 at 7:54 AM
peterdjust.bsky.social
🚨 Today, The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists is proud to be joining 45+ other organisations in supporting the briefing for Mikey Akers' #InvestInSLT petition debate.

▶️ rcslt.org/wp-content/u...

📺You can watch the debate from 4:30pm on this link: youtube.com/live/PQgj8HS...
The logos of 48 organisations supporting the briefing for the debate on Mikey Akers’ #InvestInSLT petition.
January 27, 2025 at 9:16 AM
pamslater26.bsky.social
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This is the news we have been waiting for! Mikey's Wish #investinslt petition is going to be debated in Parliament on Mon 27th January. 🎉🎉🎉💙
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November 27, 2024 at 8:36 PM
peterdjust.bsky.social
❤️ When we published the briefing, it was supported by 46 organisations. It is now being supported by 48. We are massively grateful to them for their support - there's still time for more!

📢 Mikey brilliantly highlights why the #InvestInSLT debate matters.

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Front page of a briefing for the #InvestInSLT debate on 27 January 2025.
January 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
gillianrudd.bsky.social
"The current system is underfunded, overstretched and unprepared for the future."

Sureena Brackenridge @sureenawne.bsky.social, MP, speaking at the #InvestInSLT speech and language therapy debate on 27 January 2025.
November 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
peterdjust.bsky.social
😍 How appropriate that my first blue sky post is to share the amazing news that Mikey Akers' #InvestInSLT petition is being debated on 27 January 2025.

🔍 Check out why this matters: www.rcslt.org/news/rcslt-t...

committees.parliament.uk/committee/32...
Decisions of the Petitions Committee, 26 November 2024 - Committees - UK Parliament
On 26 November 2024 the Committee considered e-petitions that had received over 100,000 signatures. The Committee also considered e-petitions that had received over 10,000 signatures and received a Go...
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November 28, 2024 at 7:39 AM
mikeys-wish.bsky.social
Following the #investinSLT debate, I have a meeting pencilled in, on Monday 24th March, with Stephen Kinnock (Minister of State at the Department of Health and Social Care).

10 years of raising awareness, making connections and campaigning and finally those who can bring are starting to listen.
February 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
peterdjust.bsky.social
📢 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...
Screenshot of RCSLT submission to the Autumn Budget 2025/Spending Review consultation. Screenshot of RCSLT submission to the Autumn Budget 2025/Spending Review consultation. Screenshot of RCSLT submission to the Autumn Budget 2025/Spending Review consultation.
October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
peterdjust.bsky.social
📢 Can you help people with communication and swallowing needs?

🗣️ From 4:30pm on Monday, 27th January there will be a Westminster Hall debate on Mikey Akers' #InvestInSLT petition.

📨 With 5 minutes and your postcode you can contact your MP asking them to take part: www.rcslt.org/policy-and-i...
An Easy Read guide to contact your MP about the #InvestInSLT petition debate. An Easy Read guide to contact your MP about the #InvestInSLT petition debate. An Easy Read guide to contact your MP about the #InvestInSLT petition debate.
January 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
peterdjust.bsky.social
🚨 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
Statement from the Invest In SLT home team dated 27 October 2025 marking nine months since Mikey Akers' petition was debated in the House of Commons.
November 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
pamslater26.bsky.social
Wow, such fantastic speakers at the #investinslt debate today!

You can watch/listen to the debate

www.youtube.com/live/PQgj8HS...
E-petition debate relating to speech and language therapy - Monday 27 January
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January 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
peterdjust.bsky.social
📢 Have a few spare minutes today?

💻 Then contact your MP about Mikey Akers' #InvestInSLT petition debate on Monday.

📧 The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists has set-up a template email for you:
rcslt.org/policy-and-i...
Front page of a briefing for the #InvestInSLT debate on 27 January 2025.
January 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
blacksheeppress.bsky.social
On the 27th of January, parliament will debate increasing funding for Speech and language therapy for children who desperately need it. Well done to all those who have brought this another step closer ...
#InvestInSLT.

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November 29, 2024 at 11:13 AM
pamslater26.bsky.social
Monday 27th Jan
#investinslt debate
January 22, 2025 at 8:06 PM
wordaware.bsky.social
SaLT aligns with many government agendas
There are many MPs who support the campaign: for personal and constituent related reasons
They were well briefed
They are aware of the demand increases and recruitment crisis.

View it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQgj...

#InvestInSLT
E-petition debate relating to speech and language therapy - Monday 27 January
YouTube video by UK Parliament
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January 28, 2025 at 10:15 AM
peterdjust.bsky.social
😊 Presentation for Lord Norton of Louth's students is done.

#PublicAffairs #PolicyInfluencing #ParliamentMatters #Parliament #InvestInSLT #SENDInTheSpecialists #PrescribingNow #ExPremiers #ThatcherAfterDowningStreet #Influencing #ExternalAffairs #Campaigning
PowerPoint presentation first slide reading, 'External affairs and influencing inspiration, infrastructure, impact - and issue' - Peter Just, February 2025.
February 26, 2025 at 8:36 AM
speechandlanguage.bsky.social
It is so important that the issues affecting access to speech and language therapy services are tackled. We fully support this campaign - children and young people with communication needs should not have to wait any longer
#InvestInSLT
carolinebowen.bsky.social Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · 10d
Hello 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES, SLT advocates, parents of children & young people with #SLCN & other dedicated #childSPEECHdis #devLANGdis 💃🕺movers & shakers. The #INVESTinSLT push has important implications internationally. Please amplify📣 this message 🇬🇧 #budget2025🇬🇧 #budget25🇬🇧 @ukparliament.parliament.uk
November 5, 2025 at 11:14 AM
gillianrudd.bsky.social
Thank you Stephen Kinnock and colleagues for a positive and productive #InvestInSLT follow-up meeting today. We were pleased to speak to colleagues across DHSC and DfE and discuss issues relating to funding, service provision and workforce. Next step: action planning.
A photo of (left to right) Saqib Bhatti, MP for Meriden, Chris Kamara, Gillian Rudd, Steve Jamieson, Louisa Akers, Mikey Akers and Minister Stephen Kinnock. Everyone is stood up and smiling. The background is a wall of wooden panelling with two framed pictures on the wall and windows at the top.
March 25, 2025 at 5:49 AM
peterdjust.bsky.social
😊 Great to catch-up with Dave Harford earlier to discuss the #InvestInSLT campaign and much more.
Two men smiling.
October 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
peterdjust.bsky.social
📢 Mikey Akers' #InvestInSLT petition update.

🤔 Did The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists mention it's being debated on Monday, 27 January?

🔽 More details below.

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committees.parliament.uk/committee/32...
MPs to debate a petition relating to speech and language therapy - Committees - UK Parliament
On Monday 27 January, MPs will debate a petition relating to speech and language therapy.
committees.parliament.uk
January 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
hlh17.bsky.social
Much needed #InvestInSLT #communityNHS
May 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM