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
🚨With the Budget just a day away, some quotes from ministers and NICE over the past few months which kind of highlight why the Govt needs to #InvestInSLT and publish its SLT Action Plan.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🚨With the Budget just a day away, some quotes from ministers and NICE over the past few months which kind of highlight why the Govt needs to #InvestInSLT and publish its SLT Action Plan.
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❄️ Hull, what is going on?!
November 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
❄️ 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.
November 18, 2025 at 10:51 AM
😊 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.
🚨 #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...
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📨 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...
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November 17, 2025 at 8:58 AM
🚨 #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...
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📨 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...
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🐶 New job: rocking with Rocco.
November 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
🐶 New job: rocking with Rocco.
🚨 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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🚨 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...
🚨 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...
🚨 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?!
😊 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.
🚨 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/...
🚨 The #SENDInTheSpecialists coalition, of which the RCSLT is a member, has issued a statement on the 'Solving the SEND crisis' report.
✅ We welcome the recommendation on a joint SEND work plan between the Education and Health and Social Care Departments.
#SENDInquiry #SEND #SENDWorkforce
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✅ We welcome the recommendation on a joint SEND work plan between the Education and Health and Social Care Departments.
#SENDInquiry #SEND #SENDWorkforce
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September 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
🚨 The #SENDInTheSpecialists coalition, of which the RCSLT is a member, has issued a statement on the 'Solving the SEND crisis' report.
✅ We welcome the recommendation on a joint SEND work plan between the Education and Health and Social Care Departments.
#SENDInquiry #SEND #SENDWorkforce
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✅ We welcome the recommendation on a joint SEND work plan between the Education and Health and Social Care Departments.
#SENDInquiry #SEND #SENDWorkforce
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🚨 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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❤️💔❤️ Amy Winehouse does Camden.
September 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
❤️💔❤️ Amy Winehouse does Camden.
😊 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!
🏆 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!
September 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
😊 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!
🏆 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!
🚨 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...
🗒️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...
September 2, 2025 at 6:24 AM
🚨 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...
🗒️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...
🥳 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...
🚨 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...
August 23, 2025 at 12:42 PM
🥳 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...
🚨 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...
⭐️ 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...
August 23, 2025 at 8:25 AM
🤩 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...
⭐️ 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...
🚨 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.
😃 Very good to see the RCSLT's 'A profession under pressure' report highlighted.
👏 @gillianrudd.bsky.social.
August 13, 2025 at 6:20 AM
🚨 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.
😃 Very good to see the RCSLT's 'A profession under pressure' report highlighted.
👏 @gillianrudd.bsky.social.
🫵🏿🫵🏽🫵🏻 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.
🏆 Then nominate them for an @auditoryverbaluk.bsky.social Claire Campbell Outstanding Achievement Award.
⬇️ Details below.
August 4, 2025 at 12:04 PM
🫵🏿🫵🏽🫵🏻 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.
🏆 Then nominate them for an @auditoryverbaluk.bsky.social Claire Campbell Outstanding Achievement Award.
⬇️ Details below.
🗣️ 'Christian?'
🗣️ 'No, human. Someone has to put all these southerners right, given they're living in a state of error.'
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🗣️ 'No, human. Someone has to put all these southerners right, given they're living in a state of error.'
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August 1, 2025 at 6:55 AM
🗣️ 'Christian?'
🗣️ 'No, human. Someone has to put all these southerners right, given they're living in a state of error.'
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🗣️ 'No, human. Someone has to put all these southerners right, given they're living in a state of error.'
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🗣️ Walking through London the other day, a man stopped me, commenting on this bag, 'Hull?'
🗣️ 'Yes, I'm from there.'
🗣️ 'What are you doing London then?'
🗣️ 'Missionary work.'
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🗣️ 'Yes, I'm from there.'
🗣️ 'What are you doing London then?'
🗣️ 'Missionary work.'
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August 1, 2025 at 6:54 AM
🗣️ Walking through London the other day, a man stopped me, commenting on this bag, 'Hull?'
🗣️ 'Yes, I'm from there.'
🗣️ 'What are you doing London then?'
🗣️ 'Missionary work.'
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🗣️ 'Yes, I'm from there.'
🗣️ 'What are you doing London then?'
🗣️ 'Missionary work.'
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😊 Great to catch up with Jennifer Benson earlier and discuss all things speech and language therapy!
July 31, 2025 at 5:44 PM
😊 Great to catch up with Jennifer Benson earlier and discuss all things speech and language therapy!