Leaping Forward in early child and family support # 8: Developing political maturity in the professional body

Do we ignore politics because we are too comfortable and safe?

I argued in Leaping forward #7 that the persistent downgrading of the family body is a political issue and that such conferences as Portugal 25 could start to improve the situation across the world.

Another massive political issue for us

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Discussion topics to promote early child and family support. What do you think the most important issues are?

Are we making progress or losing ground?

My dream is that early child and family support around the world will be effective in family terms, fully integrated between local agencies and available at the time of need to all families in the locality. What would you add to this?

With this aspiration in

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Leaping Forward in early child and family support from the Portugal 25 conference. Number 7: Us and Them

I am imagining Portugal 25 as a powerful springboard to a better future for us all

 

My hopes and wishes for the conference programme so far have included:

  • To treat the Portugal 25 conference as a world summit to reflect on the past 50 years and set an outline agenda for the next 25
  • To fully i

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Early child and family support ‘wishes’: The urgent need for a leap forward (with reference to Portugal 25)

The TAC approach with its multi-agency keyworker is straightforward, easy to manage and effective in family terms

Editorial: TAC Bulletin readers might have seen my ‘wishes’ for content in the coming Portugal conference 2025. These started with:Early child and family support conference in Portugal (

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Early child and family support conference in Portugal by ISEI and Eurlyaid. 5: Learning valuable lessons from the pandemic about working at a distance

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