by admin | Oct 21, 2025 | Children, Coaching, Young People
I have a question but you can’t answer it. Does leave me with a bit of a predicament now so I’ll keep talking to the wall and wish I hadn’t prepared for this moment. Hopefully you’ll still be listening by the end. Seems weird right, but this is potentially the way...
by admin | Oct 17, 2025 | Children, Coaching, Schools, Wellbeing, Young People
Big Ofsted Changes Are Coming And Here’s Why It Matters Back when I worked firmly IN both primary and secondary education (not on the edges as I do with coaching), as well as for the local authority, the word Ofsted could send the whole building into a spin. It was...
by admin | Sep 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
Today, I want to share something special. Most of the feedback I receive as a coach comes from parents, educators, or other adults, and it’s always valuable, of course, but now and then, a young person says something that stops you in your tracks. Earlier this week, I...
by admin | Nov 22, 2024 | Children, Partnerships, Young People, Youth Centre, Youth Work
Reflecting on my first few months as a Charity Manager I stumbled on an old notebook that acted as a professional reflective journal when I was Charity Manager of a small youth charity. For the first ten weeks I wrote and reflected every single day about the...
by admin | Oct 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
Because youth work isn't a real job, right? When I started the youth-work-specific elements of my degree – the parts that focused on the teen years, there was a great anecdote found in one of the books (Harrison and Wise, 2005), telling of a mother who visits...
