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• A day in the life of a safeguarding team manager

  13-02-2024 22:11
  
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  8.30am: I log on with a cup of tea by my side and read through my emails and notifications.
  9.15am: We have a team brief over Microsoft Teams. We talk through the day ahead – what needs prioritising, whether anyone needs any support, who is covering duty, scheduled child visits for the day and any reports due. As it’s Friday, we also discuss our weekend plans. I think the team b
  
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• Young and old help each other to thrive | Brief letters

  13-02-2024 18:58
  
  The beauty of Belong Chester | Sunday snooping | Boris Johnson’s service | Everyone’s an emeritusI read your feature on the Belong intergenerational community in Chester with absolute delight (Young, old and marvellous: how a care home built a nursery – and everyone thrived, 6 February). I am so pleased that somebody is taking the all‑important connection between old and young seriously, and making it work. As a teenager and twentysomething moons ago, I strongly felt
  
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• Intervals by Marianne Brooker review – a daughter’s angry and profound memorial to her mother

  13-02-2024 10:00
  
  The author’s singular account of her parent’s illness and decision to hasten her death is written with remarkable clarity and precisionIntervals is an exceptional book, for which every deserved superlative seems cliched, in part because the language of illness, death and bereavement often feels too hollowed out by use to accommodate the magnitude of those experiences. Frequently repeated words may gain a carapace that resists our scrutiny: take “dignity”, for example, whi
  
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• Build and lead a team to transform the lives of children with complex needs

  13-02-2024 08:18
  
  Do you want to lead an in-house multidisciplinary children’s home team as part of an exciting and innovative social care, education and health partnership?
  The home, based in Romsey, Hampshire, will deliver much needed, residential care for children with challenging complex behaviours.
  “Hockley House is an exciting and innovate partnership between Hampshire County Council children’s services and Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board to deliver much needed residentia
  
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