😷 A memory from some years ago. If only I could remember which.

🚨 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...

Andy Burnham speech June 2024

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🗣️ '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/...

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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🚨 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...

📢 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.

Schools Week@schoolsweek.bsky.social · 4w ago

The government doesn’t know how many speech and language therapists are working in council services ahead of the rollout of its new experts at hand service, a minister has admitted schoolsweek.co.uk/dfe-in-the-d...

🧈 Example of 'butter wouldn't melt': Rocco.

📢 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...

APPG on Allied Health Professions call for evidence: neighbourhood health

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🚨 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...

👜 The RCSLT Giving Voice tote bag is on the train to Leeds for the Giving Voice choir's summer celebration!

🚨 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...

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RockingAphasia stones. Hidden rocks, rock sightings and aphasia organisations. Posts shared in 2026

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🪨 #RockingAphasia comes to All Saints' Church in Hessle. 🤦🏻‍♂️Must remember to check next year: is the place clearer than the hashtag? #Aphasia #AphasiaAwareness #AphasiaAwarenessMonth

📢 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-...

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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🚨 #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

❤️ In which Rocco shows off his side eye.

🪨 #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

🚨 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...

😊 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/

Mikey’s Wish Foundation@mikeys-wish.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We are incredibly proud to announce that our founder, Mikey Akers, has been awarded an MBE in the King’s Birthday Honours for services to Special Educational Needs.

🚨 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...

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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🚨 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...

RCSLT welcomes House of Lords Autism Act 2009 Committee report | RCSLT

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🚨 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.

😍 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...

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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🚨 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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Hansard record of the item : 'Allied Health Professionals' on Thursday 23 April 2026.

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

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🚨 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/