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The political energy of our young...
It’s not often that I feel energised and inspired on a wet Monday night in February, but that was exactly how I was left feeling recently after...
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Leaders of Steel
It’s a sobering realisation to know that I started to learn some of the fundamentals of economics in the heady time of the 1980s! In a...
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A system fuelled by love
The Behind Closed Doors preface ends with the statement “I explore an alternative: a system built on a strong supportive society and fuelled...
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The recruitment and retention...
When I was asked to write the ADCS blog for the Eastern region, I inevitably thought about some of the challenges that we are facing in my own...
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What's it all about?
I can’t have been the only Director of Children’s Services who was saddened and disappointed at the targeting of social workers and colleague...
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‘So let us not return to what was...
As many will know from my work with the ADCS Educational Achievement (EA) Policy Committee, my passion for levelling up and enhancing the role of...
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Can I level up with you!?
Blackburn with Darwen, set within the heart of Pennine Lancashire, has high levels of structural inequality that impact on the communities that...
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Must do, nice to do, hope it goes...
It feels like the Christmas break was a very long time ago now, but as it’s still January I think I can just about get away with wishing...
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We see you...
I’m not sure what the collective noun for DCSs is; an exhaustion, a wisdom, a confusion, a compassion, or perhaps it’s a “solidarity of...
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Duty of optimism
Well, goodbye 2021, I can’t say that I am sad to see that year go. Indeed the year has been scattered with sadness through the suffering and...
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