It felt like an exciting time. The beginning of some significant changes, an empowerment of children, and the assertion of a moral purpose in working with children. The act was a response to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. This was the beginning of my career, fresh out of university. I was excited about how I could change the world, to make my difference to the children and families I was working with. My fire had been ignited by some amazing equalities training when I worked at Leicester City Council. Coupled with my own personal experiences of discrimination, I began to think there was a lifetime career in this.
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