Then to Parliament for a seminar with the Children, Schools and Families Select Committee to brief them in advance of their inquiry into the implementation of Care Matters for children in care. The committee all seem to want to make it better for children and the politics are left at the door.
Tuesday: We've got IiP! Little more than a year into the biggest organisational change programme any of us has seen, and with the small matter of a Joint Area Review along the way, yet we gain accreditation.
The assessor waxes lyrical about our progress. My own take on this is simple: it's not just about the staff, it's about the children and their families. But you can't hope to get it right for them if you don't get it right for the staff. So this bodes well for where we want to take the service. The only drawback is my management team, who see fit to trick me into thinking that we'd failed. Their idea of a joke. Now these people have some serious development needs.
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