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• Social workers honoured in King’s birthday list

  19-06-2024 11:36
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.A clutch of social workers have been recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours list, announced this week.
  The recipients included a past and present principal social worker (PSW), the co-founder of the secure base model of therapeutic caregiving and a retired practitioner who used to support Holocaust survivors.
  There was also recognition for current or former directors of children&rsq
  
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• ‘A 30-second walk would exhaust me beyond reason’: Natacha’s life with long Covid

  19-06-2024 11:00
  
  Natacha Gray had an active life, diving, climbing and playing music, before illness left her so tired she would collapse on the way to the couch. She discusses two and a half devastating years – and how she stays optimisticNatacha Gray is singing the song she has written about living with long Covid. It’s a lovely, haunting song and she sings it beautifully. It begins:There’s a piano in my home Untouched for many months With black and white keys That gather up dust Continue rea
  
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