Naturally I’ve been thinking back over a career in children’s services going back over forty years (how did that happen?!) In many ways the needs of children and families have not changed, but the context in which teachers, social workers, and other members of the children’s workforce practice is unrecognisable.
There are many factors which we’ll have to find solutions to if we are going to continue to attract, recruit, and (importantly) enthuse a new generation of diverse talent to both frontline roles and leadership positions. These go way beyond the perennial issues of resourcing and workload. I’m not complaining about the level of public accountability through inspection, although recent events should give everyone pause for thought, but for example, issues like the use of social media as a platform for the harassment of people simply doing their job, to which we haven’t yet found an adequate response, need real consideration.
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