As some of you may know, I am married to a Head Teacher (thankfully not in my local authority area) which makes for lively debates at the dinner table as we robustly discuss the roles and responsibilities within our respective systems and cogitate about the various regulatory processes we are subjected to. This leads, on occasions, to a pondering about whether we would choose these career pathways again which, depending on the type of day we have had, may not always generate the same conclusions.
Most of you would agree that working in children’s services, and in particular as a Director, is often a challenge, subject to moments of extreme stress and often trying to find ways of innovatively responding to the ever changing and increasingly complex needs of our young residents which can on occasions lead to statements from me about being glad that ‘I am in the latter years of my career’.
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