It started with Amazon (my new shopping BF) delivering me a copy of Polly Curtis’s “Behind Closed Doors”.
Closely followed by the Ofsted Scoping Study on Early Help published earlier in the month.
The Behind Closed Doors preface ends with the statement “I explore an alternative: a system built on a strong supportive society and fuelled not by process and defence but by love” - a sentiment I think many of us wholeheartedly support, especially after the last two years. But equally it is important to know what we are struggling to do in the current climate, something which the Early Help Scoping Study brings into sharp relief. It demonstrates how early help has become entwined with the provision of services to protect children from harm at the statutory end, rather than being a part of a broader public health approach shared with all multi-agency partners and local communities.
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