MY CHOSEN CHARITY

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I've worked in education welfare for amost 30 years. My priority has always been on making sure that colleagues in schools and local authorities know the relevant law and follow the required guidance, but also that they recognise the need for sensitivity in how they are applied. Schools should be compassionate and creative places that model inclusion and cooperation, not a battleground.

So I may not always tell you exactly what you think you want to hear. But I will offer you an informed and independent voice that gives you real practical help in carrying out your statutory duties and seeks to promote creative solutions for those children and young people who most need them.

Use the CONTACT ME page or e-mail or phone. See WHITTER for my thoughts on education welfare issuses: Currently: 'A difficult balance' and  'Boys will be boys?'

ALL INFORMATION AND ADVICE PROVIDED ON THIS WEBSITE, AND IN RELATED RESOURCES AND EVENTS, IS  GIVEN IN GOOD FAITH AND IS TRUE AND ACCURATE TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEF. HOWEVER NO LIABILTY IS ACCEPTED FOR ANY ADVERSE CONSEQUENCES ARISING THEREFROM OR FOR ANY IMPLICATIONS OF UNINTENDED ERRORS.  I HAVE BOTH PUBLIC LIABILITY AND PROFESSIONAL INDEMNITY INSURANCE.

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Ever wondered whether there might still be a place for a personal spirituality, even if you don't believe in a God? I  also write on 'Christian Humanism' as a hobby. All religions, their gods and their values, are human attempts to help us to understand ourselves. We created them; they weren't handed down from above. Religions are just  another form of human activity like music, art and literature.

So is there any value in Christianity if you strip away all the doctrinal baggage and outdated assumptions about the way the world is? We still have to make choices and decisions about how to live, but is there anything left in the Christian story to help us? You decide.