What a day, another day spent chasing up the induction programme, trying to get the University IT system to actually accept my existence, working through the overly complicated registration to get childcare vouchers and finalizing some childcare details.
Its going to be a very challenging year, so I just keep telling myself it will be worth it in the end, maybe some days that will be easier to believe that others. I will let you know over the coming year if the days that its all "worth it" outweigh those days when I think "why".
Today the Serious care review into Daniel Pelka's death has been published, I have not yet had the opportunity to read the details, but this comment has stood out:
Daniel's voice wasn't heard at all.
It's so hard to imagine that pain and suffering that Daniel went through, we obviously can't take away even an ounce of that torture he suffered, but maybe its possible for something positive to arise from his death, maybe the next child might have that chance to be heard, I hope, I wish and I so want that to happen.
Sadly I seem to remember that the child's voice was an important theme of Laming's report, (and how many years ago was it when Victoria died and the subsequent report was published?)
"As Lord Laming said at the very beginning of this review, it is vital that social workers focus on the needs of the child, rather than on their parents. We are particularly concerned that many children and young people are still not being seen, spoken to or listened to and so their needs have been ignored. This needs to be urgently remedied and listening to children needs to be at the core of all training for professionals."
(http://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/news-views/press-release/childrens-society-responds-lord-lamings-review-child-protection)
I wonder when we will be able to start listening?
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