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Peter Just

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Views here my own. Work: external affairs & influencing at the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. Research: ‪@expremiers.bsky.social‬

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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🤭 In which Rocco masters the Monday morning look.
A poodle.
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
❤️ When you've not seen each other for a month.
A poddle.
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
💔 Thanks for everything, Dolly, especially this one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhTv...
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Dolly Parton - Stairway to Heaven (Audio)
YouTube video by Dolly Parton
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
❤️ Rocco in the morning.
A poodle.
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
😷 A memory from some years ago. If only I could remember which.
A man in a face mask.
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
🚨 Great to be reminded of Andy Burnham's speech to @mikeys-wish.bsky.social Family Day in June 2024, which the RCSLT was proud to attend - and to hear him speak about the importance of speech and language therapy. 😊 We look forward to working with him on it! www.youtube.com/watch?reload...
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Andy Burnham speech June 2024
YouTube video by RCSLT Official
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
🗣️ 'I'll just have to become known as the whispering MP.' 📻 Check out this interview with Anna Sabine about losing her voice after surgery. 😊 Great for the RCSLT to hear Nick Robinson say of speech & language therapists, 'These people are saints'. 🧵 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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Somerset MP Anna Sabine loses voice after surgery
Anna Sabine was having a lump removed from her thyroid when a nerve to one of her vocal cords was cut.
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
🚨 RCSLT responds to the Cardiovascular Disease Modern Service Framework. 🔗 Check out what we welcome and what more we think needs to be done so people are better supported: www.rcslt.org/wp-content/u...
Screenshot of  the RCSLT response to the Cardiovascular Disease Modern Service Framework.
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
📢 Great to see RCSLT quoted in this article on the Govt saying how many speech and language therapists are working in council services. 🚨 Improved national data collection on the number of speech and language therapists working across all sectors, settings, and employers is required.
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
🧈 Example of 'butter wouldn't melt': Rocco.
A Barboncino.
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
📢 Calling all speech and language therapists. 📋 The APPG on Allied Health Professions has launched a call for evidence on #AHPs delivering neighbourhood health. ⏰Deadline for submissions: 1 September 2026. www.csp.org.uk/documents/ap...
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APPG on Allied Health Professions call for evidence: neighbourhood health
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
🚨 Inclusive Parliament coalition statement. ✅ Some welcome things in the House Administration's response to Modernisation Committee. ❌ More to do if Parliament is to be inclusive of and accessible to signers and people with communication needs. 🔗 rcslt.org/news/inclusi...
Inclusive Parliament Coalition statement, 'Making the House of Commons more accessible'.
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
👜 The RCSLT Giving Voice tote bag is on the train to Leeds for the Giving Voice choir's summer celebration!
A Giving Voice tote bag on a train table.
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
🚨 Last week, the the Department for Education published guidance on inclusion bases. ✅ The RCSLT is pleased it recognises the importance of health professionals, providers, and commissioners being involved from an early stage. 🔗 www.rcslt.org/wp-content/u...
RCSLT statement on inclusion bases in schools June 2026.
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Dr Abi Roper @abracabadger.com · 28/06/2026
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#RockingAphasia 2026 - Google My Maps
RockingAphasia stones. Hidden rocks, rock sightings and aphasia organisations. Posts shared in 2026
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
🪨 #RockingAphasia comes to All Saints' Church in Hessle. 🤦🏻‍♂️Must remember to check next year: is the place clearer than the hashtag? #Aphasia #AphasiaAwareness #AphasiaAwarenessMonth
A stone with #RockingAphasia written on it outside All Saints' Church in Hessle, England.
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
📢 Calling everyone interested in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. 📋 Have you seen this new report from @nationalfasd.bsky.social on 'The Cost of Inaction on FASD'? nationalfasd.org.uk/the-cost-of-...
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The Cost of Inaction on FASD - National FASD
A Critical Gap in Current Reforms – and a credible UK-wide plan to fill it. Released June 2026.
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
🚨 #RockingAphasia update! 😊 I was pleased to leave my first two stones yesterday. 🪨 One at the Edgar Wilson Model Village in Vauxhall Park in London. 🪨 One at King's Cross station. 🫵🏻 Are you taking part this year? #Aphasia #AphasiaAwareness #AphasiaAwarenessMonth
A stone with the hashtag #RockingAphasia on it in the Edgar Wilson Model Village in Vauxhall Park in London.A stone with the hashtag #RockingAphasia on it at King's Cross station in London.
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
❤️ In which Rocco shows off his side eye.
A man holding a Barboncino.
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
🪨 #RockingAphasia prepping at the RCSLT! 🎨 Alas, of all the things I inherited from my Father, his artistic streak was not one of them. 🫵🏻🫵🏾🫵🏿 Are you taking part this year? #Aphasia #AphasiaAwarenessMonth
Three pebbles with the hashtag #RockingAphasia written on them.
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
🚨 Today, the House of Lords is debating tackling child poverty. 📋 Check out the RCSLT's evidence to the Education and Work and Pensions Select Committees' inquiry on the Child Poverty Strategy on how we think it can be strengthened. committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide...
committees.parliament.uk
Written evidence - CPS0057
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
😊 Fantastic to see that Mikey was awarded an MBE in The King's Birthday Honours. 🎉Huge congratulations from all of us at the RCSLT, Mikey. 🙏🏻🙏🏾🙏🏿 Thanks for all you do, including in support of our policy and influencing work. 🧵 1/
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
🚨 Yesterday, the House of Lords debated the 'New Autism Strategy (Autism Act 2009 Committee Report)'. 😊 There were various references to speech and language therapy, and to communication. 🧵 1/ hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2026-0...
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New Autism Strategy (Autism Act 2009 Committee Report) - Hansard - UK Parliament
Hansard record of the item : 'New Autism Strategy (Autism Act 2009 Committee Report)' on Wednesday 10 June 2026.
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
🚨 Today, the House of Lords is debating the Autism Act 2009 Committee's 'Time to deliver: The Autism Act 2009 and the new autism strategy' report. 🔗 Check out what the RCSLT welcomes about the report and what more we think the Government and Parliament need to do. www.rcslt.org/news/rcslt-w...
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RCSLT welcomes House of Lords Autism Act 2009 Committee report | RCSLT
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
🚨 Last week, the Department for Education published new guidance on the Experts at Hand offer and announced the membership of the Expert Panel. 📋 Check out the RCSLT's response, including our delight that the Expert Panel includes two speech and language therapists.
Graphic with the RCSLT logo on and the wording 'New guidance on developing the Experts at Hand offer'.
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
😍 Posing one of the great questions: who looks after who?
A man holding a Barboncino.
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
🪅 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'?
Battered sausage and chips with tomato sauce.
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
⚡️ 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...
Screenshot of a RCSLT statement on the King's Speech in May 2026.
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
🥳 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...
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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.
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
🚨 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...
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Allied Health Professionals - Hansard - UK Parliament
Hansard record of the item : 'Allied Health Professionals' on Thursday 23 April 2026.
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
🚨 Heathrow Terminal 5 on a Friday in April 2026: The Dowager Countess of Grantham as revelant as ever.
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a woman is sitting at a table talking to a man while wearing a hat .
ALT: a woman is sitting at a table talking to a man while wearing a hat .
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
🚨 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.
Screenshot of RCSLT statement on the NICE quality standard for rare diseases.
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
🚨 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...
Graphic with the ASLTIP and RCSLT logos on and the words, 'What we're looking for in the 10 Year Workforce Plan'.
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
🚨 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/
RCSLT briefing on SEND provision and reform dated April 2026.
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
🚆 Bucket list item: Rome on the train. ❤️ Courtesy of my Father. 🇫🇷 First stop: Paris. 🙏🏻 Thanks, Dad.
Eurostar platform at St Pancras.
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
💥 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-...
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Invest in SLT campaign letter delivered to Downing Street | RCSLT
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
🚨 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...
gov.uk
New screen time guidance for parents of under-5s
Government answers parents’ calls for support on screen time with new evidence-backed guidance.
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
☕️ 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.
An espresso and coffee maker on a stool on a roof terrace.
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
🚨 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.
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Mikey’s Wish Foundation @mikeys-wish.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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.
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Gillian Rudd @gillianrudd.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Quick trip to London for #InvestInSLT this weekend. Follow @mikeys-wish.bsky.social @peterdjust.bsky.social for updates!
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
💥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-...
A graphic with the Mikey's Wish Foundation and RCSLT's logos and the wording 'Invest in SLT Campaign writes to Prime Minister'.Six people stood outside 10 Downing Street in London. They are holding up cards reading 'Invest in SLT Campaign'.
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
🇮🇹 Ones spring is sprung.
A man on a train.
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
🚨 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...
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Education Secretary's speech at the RISE inclusion conference
Education Secretary's key note speech at the South East RISE inclusion conference.
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
🚨 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...
questions-statements.parliament.uk
Written questions and answers - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament
Information from UK Parliament on written questions & answers, written statements and daily reports.
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
🙏🏻 Spring's arriving...
Tall buildings from a platform at Vauxhall railway station.
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
🚨 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...
Screenshot of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists factsheet on supporting a good end of life.
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
⏰ 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.
A RCSLT graphic reading 'Primary Progressive Aphasia parliamentary event Wednesday, 11 March 2026'.
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
📢 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...
parkinsons.org.uk
2025 UK Parkinson's Audit: findings highlight more work to be done despite Parkinson's health service improvements
Our largest ever Audit of Parkinson's health services across the UK has shown NHS services are gradually improving in quality. However, it also reveals 5 key areas of Parkinson's care that need improv...
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Peter Just @peterdjust.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
⏰ 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.
A RCSLT graphic reading 'Primary Progressive Aphasia parliamentary event Wednesday, 11 March 2026'.
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