Peter Just

John Hayes: The case for a national right to rehab | Conservative Home We must establish a national neurorehabilitation framework which guarantees that access to specialist care is not a lottery, but a certain path to recovery.

📢 Calling all #SLPeeps and #SLT2B

🚨 Check out this ConservativeHome article by Sir John Hayes MP making the case for a National Right to Rehab.

#RightToRehab #BrainInjuryAwareness #NeuroRehabilitation #UKPolitics #HealthPolicy #BrainInjury #Rehab

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Modernisation Committee spurs action as Commons makes accessibility improvements - Committees - UK Parliament The House of Commons has made a series of rapid improvements in response to the Modernisation Committee’s accessibility inquiry.

🚨 Modernisation Committee update

😊For all those interested in the work of the #InclusiveParliament coalition being led by the RCSLT and STAMMA, check out this press release from the House of Commons Modernisation Committee.

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Thanks, Rob, and ditto.

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💨 Storm Floris strikes: our train has ground to a halt due to a gazebo on the *overhead* power lines.

Claire Campbell Outstanding Achievement Awards 2025 Launches For Entries We’re delighted to launch the 2025 Claire Campbell Outstanding Achievement Awards, celebrating its third year of recognising exceptional contributions. The awards recognise a deaf child or young...

😊 Here's how to nominate someone for a Claire Campbell Outstanding Achievement Award.

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A graphic promoting Auditory Verbal UK's Claire Campbell Outstanding Achievement Awards. It features a picture of a girl and a woman smiling. The wording reads: 'Recognising those who have gone above and beyond to challenge perceptions of what deaf children can achieve. Nominations now open.'

🫵🏿🫵🏽🫵🏻 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.

A tote bag with the words 'Think You Know Hull? Think Again' on it.

🗣️ 'Christian?'

🗣️ 'No, human. Someone has to put all these southerners right, given they're living in a state of error.'

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A tote bag with the words 'Think You Know Hull? Think Again' on it.

🗣️ 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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🥳 Happy Yorkshire Day everyone!

😊 Big shout out to everyone who was born in Yorkshire, or who lives there.

🤞🏻 For those who weren't, or don't, oh well, never mind.

🧵 To mark this great day, a story about Hull.

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A woman and a man stood next to each other smiling.

😊 Great to catch up with Jennifer Benson earlier and discuss all things speech and language therapy!

Screenshot of a transcript of oral evidence to the Health and Social Care Select Committee's inquiry on the The First 1,000 days.

🚨 Update on RCSLT's Select Committee work.

🗣️ Janet Cooper's oral evidence to the Health and Social Care Select Committee's inquiry on The First 1,000 Days is now available online: committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence...

📘 We are officially published!

🗓 35 years of our life...

🕯...and thinking today of the two people to whom 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' is dedicated: my Grandma (Ivy Mary Just) and my Father (Derrick Just).

The Guardian view on talking in class: the writers speaking up for oracy education are right | Editorial Editorial: Verbal communication has always been crucial. But today more than ever, young people must be equipped for jobs that can’t be done by machines

🚨 @theguardian.com editorial on the #Oracy letter to Sir Keir Starmer.

👏🏻👏🏽👏🏿 Massive congratulations to our friends @voice21oracy.bsky.social for their amazing campaigning on this.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A tap in Rome being descaled. The end of the tap is in a plastic cup on a plastic box on an upturned washing up bowl.

🇮🇹 Just been discussing bella Italia with a colleague.

💡 It reminded me of this scene: descaling a tap, Roman-style.

♥️🧡 'I am a genius,' responded The Roman, when we reminded them of it.

#Italy #Italia #Rome #Roma #VisitRome #RomaIMorte

Another way we are failing an entire generation: we must teach young people to speak | Simon Jenkins The PM promised to prioritise oracy lessons, but has failed to do so. Set against tests and exams, it is seen as a luxury: in fact it is essential, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

📰 Simon Jenkins has written a comment piece on the issue in the @theguardian.com.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

😊 Great that RCSLT's signed-up to this letter and huge congrats to our @voice21oracy.bsky.social colleagues on getting such an impressive #Oracy coalition together.

Screenshot of RCSLT written evidence to the Health and Social Care Select Committee's inquiry on The First 1000 Days.

🚨 We're pleased to share RCSLT's written evidence to the Commons' Health and Social Care Committee's inquiry on The First 1000 Days.

▶️ You can read it in full:
committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide...

5️⃣ There is enough money in the system, and the right funding incentives, for these reforms to work.

4️⃣ Children with SEND’s achievements, progress and experiences are measured, so that no-one is left behind. Educational leaders are required to narrow the gap between disabled and non-disabled children’s experience of education.

3️⃣ Every local area has a plan for how they will provide a good education for the children who live there, including ensuring sufficient professionals such as speech and language therapists, occupational therapists and educational psychologists.

2️⃣ Nurseries, schools and colleges set up to succeed for children with SEND, with the training, tools and access to specialist advice and support they need.

🚨 RCSLT agrees - it's time to fix the SEND system and #ReformSEND

⬇️ Important new campaign #FightForOrdinary is calling for:

1️⃣ Support for every child who needs it - not just those with EHC Plans - with the current SEN support arrangements put on a statutory footing.

Sunday with Michael Portillo Show Join Michael Portillo and guests for a relaxed look at the world of politics, culture and the arts | GB News

🎬 You can watch my 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' interview from c.30:17 on this link.

www.gbnews.com/shows/sunday...

A man on GB News.

A man on GB News.

Two men on GB News.

Two men on GB News.

😊 Not my average Sunday morning, and, I think, the first time I've been on live TV since my Big Breakfast appearance in 2001.

😍 But great to speak about 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' on GB News this morning.

#ThatcherAfterDowningStreet #MargaretThatcher #Thatcher100 #Thatcher

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🤔 'I love abstaining'

🤭 Who knew?!

#ThatcherAfterDowningStreet #Thatcher #MargaretThatcher #Thatcher100

Earlier this evening, hosted the launch of 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' by @peterdjust.bsky.social, pictured here between @iaindale.bsky.social and me.

Cover of 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' by Peter Just.

Dedication of 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street': 'For my grandmother, Ivy Mary Just, with whom I used to discuss Margaret Thatcher, and for my father, Derrick Hugh Just, with whom I used to ‘debate’ her.'

♥️ Although they can't be with me today, it's really all for and about them.

#ThatcherAfterDowningStreet #Thatcher100 #MargaretThatcher

📻 We've been on the radio, talking about #ThatcherAfterDowningStreet - due out later this month.

🤦🏻‍♂️ Disappointment - and surprise - at Chez Just as we only got *two* plugs for the book in one video.

Giving Every Child the Best Start in Life - Hansard - UK Parliament Hansard record of the item : ' Giving Every Child the Best Start in Life' on Monday 7 July 2025.

🚨 In her Commons' statement on the strategy, Education Secretary, Bridget Phillipson, spoke of the 'amazing work' that speech and language therapists do, noting too their 'brilliant work'.

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