'They are like teenagers … sometimes they may go off in a random direction if they get distracted - you can't predict it.' But how do they get over the cattle grids? Some of us know...

Great to hear about this, real progress being made I think.

As somebody who knew John and remembers him very fondly I'm honoured that Hants YOT will receive this award for our therapeutic wellbeing workers. Thank you.

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And of course Hampshire County Council through our Youth Offending Team.

Interesting, but the reference re young people in care does not support the statement (it refers to CIN). I also wonder to what degree other forms of custody were looked at, there used to be high usage of secure MH beds in some of the countries. A lock is a lock.

Thank you and a great honour for our YOT to receive this award. Great to see Roddy Hawkins and Alasdair as well.

Have a listen to this excellent podcast episode on innovation and frontline social work Hampshire County Council featuring some of our incredible frontline staff and academic who evaluated our transformation programme communitycare.co.uk/2021/02/05/new…

Delighted to run the #greatsouthrun in support of Adopt South and to raise awareness of our brilliant team. I'm sure my knees will recover at some point. #NationalAdoptionWeek

A really useful and interesting discussion with our extended leadership team this morning looking at the future of early help, how we develop our services and continue to improve. Thank you Donna Molloy for providing the stimulus eif.org.uk

And this is the graph from RCP on the number of inpatient treatment bed days being used. Something wrong here?

'...it remains the best job in the world...' thank you Matt for helping me every step of the way, you've been a brilliant mentor, guide and friend. We shall miss you.

Congratulations Martin and Rashida, great work.

Great to launch this campaign yesterday #openyourdoor

We have lots of content from young people to share & amplify this week - starting with Isabelle Kirkham 💛's extremely considered & valuable #NCLW Guide for Allies. Isabelle originally shared this herself & kindly gave us permission to publish it too 👇 becomecharity.org.uk/nclw-a-guide-f…

Tough job today being the judge at Halloween Come Dine with me for our children in care on the IOW. Which was the best spooky haunted gingerbread house? I did my best Paul Hollywood impression. Great to see so many of our SWs there.

The Basque Refugee Children in Chandler's Ford 1937 - 2022. An exhibition now on show @CFordLibrary about the 4000 children who lived in a refugee camp, which was located in Chestnut Avenue Chandlers Ford, during the Spanish Civil War. #BasqueChildren Hampshire County Council