C.E. Jottings

Love is as relevant to person centred plans, one page profiles, risk assessments as a stale Jaffa cake.

Love and Dignity. Two words. Two blog posts from Mark Neary (See "Blogs I read" just to the right of here, below the Live Traffic Feed and CE Blogs). "Love Baffles" - "Love is as relevant to person centred plans, one page profiles, risk assessments as a stale Jaffa cake." "Dignity My Arse" - "Fundamental values like dignity become corrupted, so their only value to the corrupted professional is to mislead or cover their own arse. Or both. Whether you... Read more →

Who is Elizabeth Eyre? And why should parents of disabled children be concerned?

Elizabeth Eyre is, factually, an elected councillor, of Worcestershire County Council. Elizabeth Eyre is Cabinet Member with Responsibility for Children and Families. She first drifted into my social networking eye-line in a post by Mark Neary on his blog "Love, Belief and Balls" about a fine example of"carespeak" to add to his collection. Amused by the nonsense, I posted a link, as a Comment, on Andrew Sutton's blog, who has an eye for these things, too Explaining Worecesterhsire Councty Council's... Read more →

Why Eton fives and Westminster School matter to Conductive Education

If I were to tell you that Giles Coren, the Sunday Times columnist and food critic, may no longer be able to play Eton fives at Westminster School, you might well wonder what the sporting pastime of a former pupil of one of the UK's top private schools has to do with conductive education. If I suggested that you should be concerned, you might well suspect that I had, as has often been rumoured, finally flipped. But you would be... Read more →

Values and CE organisations

Do Values matter? The question “How should Paces be, that parents will invite us into their lives?” has intrigued me before. In essence, this is a question about our Values. How we present ourselves, how we are perceived, of course, matters. Customer satisfaction is crucial. Similarly, there can surely be no need to argue that we should comply with our statutory responsibilities. Likewise, that we should be well-run, aspiring to excellence in our services, needs no emphasis. In recent weeks,... Read more →