When I hear the word risk, I’m often filled with feelings of dread. I haven’t wanted to deal with it, hoping that it doesn’t come up so I can focus on the things I feel positive about. Whilst I have prided myself on delivering a truly person-led approach with individuals, when risk has come up,
Why we need to talk more about how ends justify the means In discourse around public finances and the continued, rather impressive ability, of this current government to blame a previous (but three) Prime Minister’s administration for their austere state; something you often hear is that the ends justify the means. George Gideon Oliver Osborne
Risk - what are we really afraid of and who are we really protecting? Going through a tough time means facing a multitude of risks but also being labelled as the risk. The full force of the risk management process is felt as people are traumatised through being asked dehumanising questions and are robbed of
Our journey with the New System Alliance. ‘Well, it’s been a strange decade so far. Buzzwords… I’m a great believer that we can judge the times we live in by looking at the words we never heard before in the last decade, that have come to us in the first few years of this
Awkward Questions In my capacity as an autism commissioner across health and social care, I spoke to the mother of a 17 year old girl with autism, who was out of school, self-harming and suicidal. She was too anxious and depressed to leave the house; she barely spoke. Soon after starting senior school, she fell
