A speaker from the south-east regional office lays out the organisational aims and talks about the fundamental principles of the new model of working.
She quotes the chair Paul Ennals on how we need to "create salad, not soup". What he means is, don't turn the new children's workforce into an indistinguishable mush, keep all the individual flavours and textures and find a way of binding the whole thing together.
TUESDAY - Off to Manchester for the annual Children's Rights Officers and Advocates conference. I'm part of the organising group.
Getting everyone checked in is one of the tasks I relish - people get so funny if their name badge is spelt wrong or if their hotel room is not big enough. I'm always mindful that most of the young people I work with would never get sight of a decent hotel room, never mind moan over the size of the bed.
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