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When is the time, the right time? None of us know when we take leaps of faith or desperation, whether this time is more opportune than another.
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So for today…. Having come from the private care sector as a long time registered manager recently and In my “new life” working and supporting within the private care sector- the past two months since lockdown has seen my blood pressure rise and fall at the lack of understanding and initial ignorance of the going on’s and real-life within the care sector.

As I follow the daily updates whilst trying to reconcile life within the sector with what we are being told – my thoughts go from disbelief, to annoyance, to despair and to gratefulness for those managers who are fighting day in and out to provide not a service but a good home life to those within their care. I was asked as were my colleagues to write some thoughts down so:

Apologies in advance for those of you who are interested enough and caring enough to be concerned or interested in what I write…I have decided that my story and my blog should be although both personal and interlinked read apart – ‘MY STORY- JOURNEY PAGE” IS ON THE SITE Here.

Locked DOWN- but not OUT!! Let me paraphrase “if you don’t behave- they will lock you up and throw away the key!” In some ways this is the real life experience of staff, managers and residents within the social care sector of the “lock down”. Regardless of the individual settings, whether community, residential or nursing, young or old. Read More

Jonathan Swift Gullivers travels

SO a Lilliputian in Lemuel Gulliver’s England or is Lemuel in Brobdingnag
Through whose eyes are we looking? In reality neither just an artificial giant in the foreground of a local beach.. its merely a matter of perspective.
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