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Taking the long view on family-group decision-making

3 mins read Social Care
Tackling the serious challenges facing children and young people can feel overwhelming, and conversations about what we can do about it can feel like they go round in circles. 
Mary Glasgow and Cathy Ashley (from left) are chief executives of charities Children First in Scotland and Family Rights Group respectively

That’s why sometimes it’s important to zoom out and take a wider view. Fifty years ago, seatbelts weren’t required, yet now we do it without a thought. Then, smoking was everywhere – in offices, on buses, in pubs. Not now. These changes happened because of decisions made by politicians that seemed radical at the time. Now they seem so obvious.    

Fifty years from now, what practice might we look back on and see as damaging and harmful that needed a radical change? 

Top of the list should be the way the current system sees families as problems to fix, instead of the people with the solutions. 

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