It does not bother me anymore. I have been a CP SW for almost 25 years, and have heard ‘all the talk’ and no action for yeas, so I am leaving the profession permanently in Sept.

My plan is I would rather have two part-time jobs (i.e. Starbucks or stacking shelves) and work 60 hours a week (and be paid for all of those hours) than work 70 + in CP, but only get paid for 35, and also be expected all the risk and weight of the organisation on me. No more.

As does the work of my name’s sakes, Erin and Amy Fraher, both are concerned respectively with the integration of health and social care and decision making in high risk teams.

I do though wonder about the theoretical flirtation with such thinking, driven and based on the US models and experiences and not the EU. I wonder what if any influence Westminster had in these experiments.

Earlier attempts with systems dynamics and lean systems thinking did little but create confusion amongst some of the most competent people I have ever worked with.

The geography of Scotland alongside a culture of openness and a piblic sector leadership determination to stand1up against bullies provides fantastic opportunity for English authorities to learn from, let’s hope that the psychobabble of management metrics doesn’t shift the focus from structural inequalities created by the legacy of Margaret Thatcher.

for cpd see The Great Moving Right Show by the late Stuart Hall. Andrew Gamble is good for an examine of how Education has shifted to the right too.

As trade agreements are fought over between the Brussels and Westminster the adoption of US models is timely, but let’s not forget that the maritime boundary runs up to the Straights of Moyle.