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An opportunity to be even more...
When I qualified as a social worker in 1995 BSG (Before the Spice Girls) we’d never really heard of agency social workers, yet now taking them...
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Put your own oxygen mask on...
For many of us it will have been some time since we heard those words in an airline safety demonstration, but, as we continue to grapple with the...
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The Value of Social Work
As a DCS, being a qualified social worker is not part of the essential criteria and I know plenty of brilliant DCS colleagues who have found...
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It's ok to be ok
Whilst I am reluctant to continue to focus on the pandemic, as we progress along the roadmap and are tantalisingly close to the end of national...
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A juggling act
In the week that “Freedom Day” was delayed for a month, almost as if it were a DfE policy announcement, I was struck by what we are currently...
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Determining the nature of sound
It’s four weeks since many local authorities were involved in overseeing local elections and, Milton Keynes being a unitary council with ‘no...
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Who loves this child?
This needs to be the starting point of everything we do in children’s services. I don’t want to see love defined, pulled apart or being put...
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Doing the impossible
I want to start this blog with a quote from Francis of Assisi “Start by doing what’s necessary; then what’s possible and suddenly you are...
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Celebrating Diversity
Today is World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development; more commonly called Diversity Day. A day enshrined within UN Resolution...
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#WhyWeCare
You may already be aware that Foster Care Fortnight began this week. This year, the annual campaign to raise the profile of fostering and show...
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