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How I Got Here: Alice Powney-Dugdale, social worker, Bristol City Council

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I grew up in a working-class family, with my dad working six long days a week as a small business owner of a local MOT garage.
Alice Powney-Dugdale says she has had a strong sense of social justice from a young age.
Alice Powney-Dugdale says she has had a strong sense of social justice from a young age.

He is someone I look up to and have learned a lot from about how to treat people. I was raised to understand right from wrong and stand up for what I believe in. Since I was young, I always had a strong sense of social justice. I was the only girl in my A-level politics class and always felt the responsibility to advocate for others. As a teenager, I didn’t always know how to channel this passion. I wasn’t academic and it wasn’t until my undergraduate law degree at university that I found an avenue to explore social issues such as human rights. Additionally, it wasn’t until my master’s degree that I discovered I had gone through education with undiagnosed dyslexia.

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