Amid every trouble, trial and challenge in a person’s life, it is what one young person once described to me as “bouncebackability”.
We seem assailed by issues that would challenge anybody’s ability to bounce back, be they young or old. As a nation we are – at last, some might say – looking more intently at how safe all our children are; how effective our work for them might be; how specialist services including social care are, or aren’t, up to the job; whether policy and practice alike take enough notice of the vulnerable and act to lessen their vulnerability.
On 16 November, Michael Gove made a considered, detailed commitment to improving children’s social care and safeguarding services, just days after the education select committee had said too little attention was being paid to these matters by his department.
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