CYP Now - It’s all about care

It’s a huge privilege to become an elected director for the ADCS Board of Directors and to be writing my first ADCS blog; I want to take this opportunity to say a big thank you to all colleagues who have warmly welcomed me into the ADCS family.

Harmesh Bhogal is director of children’s services at Bedford Borough Council. Picture: Bedford Borough Council

The opportunity to meet and work with inspirational leaders with a vast amount of experience and knowledge is so valuable to a ‘baby’ DCS (as I keep being called!). I’m extremely grateful to everyone for their offers of advice and support alongside the very amusing/alarming anecdotes and stories about what to expect as a DCS, thank you all!

I had a much-needed week off last week and visited Berwick upon Tweed accompanied by my better, and some say long suffering, other half. It was lovely to catch up with some old friends, enjoy the beautiful scenery and countryside and to have some time to think and reflect…inevitably for me that means thinking about work but importantly about why I/we do what we do.

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