On the way to see the lovely SAAS team for our quarterly catch up.....the usual excitement of being on the tram 🚃 just one of the many good things about a trip through to talk all things widening access.

You know that you work with the best team in the land when Lorraine Sillars delivers IT equipment to your door AND CELCIS team make sure you’ve got your usual wee desk buddies to go along with it 😊 the irony of being pleased that home feels a bit more like the office 🤔😂

Sad not to be in the office with my wonderful colleagues but we’re determined to keep our partnerships and networks going strong & provide support to services, organisations and people in any way we can during this unprecedented time. Let us know if there’s ways we can help.

Just saw some very moving street art by The Rebel Bear. Caption on insta says ‘A time will come; when the masks can be pulled down, the borders will reopen, & connections can be remade - hopefully stronger than ever. Much love and stay safe’ reminding us that this will pass #hope

Parenting across Scotland has put together information for families about dealing with the Coronavirus. Please help us get the information to parents and carers. parentingacrossscotland.org/info-for-famil…

Lovely to see some of our virtual head teachers and care experienced teams for a catch up today. Definitely taking the ‘virtual’ part of the job title seriously! Feeling thankful to be involved with a network of people who are up for deep, reflective, purposeful discussions.

‘Please be assured that we’re still here for you and we care about you’ an important message from Aberdeen Virtual School HT for all care experienced young people.

Thank you Paul Lee for another great session on working with care experienced children. ‘we must do better...’ ⁦@serene_wind⁩ ⁦University of Strathclyde⁩ ⁦CELCIS⁩ ⁦Linda O'Neill⁩ #strathinclusion #inclusivepedagogy

Another great catch up with some of our CELCIS & Aberdeen Virtual School HT Virtual School Head Teachers and Care Experience Teams earlier. Delighted to have overcome the IT gremlins to get 16 folk on a Skype call 🙌🏻. Always a highlight in my week to get together with this group.

Our message for #nationalthankateacherday

If you have attended, or been unable to attend a Children's hearing since Covid-19 (particularly young people and family members): ***we want to hear from you!*** Please complete and RT as widely as possible. #Covid19UK #Scotland

So pleased to be launching our new research report into the COVID-19 crisis and family estrangement. If we ran with the Hollywood ending, we'd assume that a pandemic would reconcile family rifts. In reality, our research finds this is simply not the case. standalone.org.uk/wp-content/upl…

Thinking about everyone returning to schools and nurseries today and all the ‘firsts’ for our children, young people & staff. It will look and feel different to all the other years but the enduring thing about all our settings is that relationships are still at the core.

Good luck and a safe return to school to all children and young people, teachers, and staff within our schools and nurseries. #backtoschool

Taking half an hour away from the frenetic ‘finishing for annual leave today’, day to have a wee wander 😊

That’s quite a big number 👏🏻. Thanks to everyone for all the support and engagement, Twitter can be such an important forum for sharing information, ideas and support. #happyfriday

The power of co design and co production 👏🏻. Showing what can be achieved when schools and parents and carers understand each other and genuinely work together as a team. Can’t wait to visit and see it in action at some point in the future Allison Hopton Auchenharvie Academy @NAC_FLT

Found these prints on my front path this morning. What on earth made them 🤔? In a residential area in the west end of Glasgow (size 3 adult foot for scale!) any ideas??