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Thoughts after a prolonged discussion on child protection and safeguarding, a unit covered in the college course for classroom assistants.
“We need to build resilience,” said the tutor.
The words dropped down dead onto the classroom floor. No-one picked them up to put on paper. The sheer inadequacy of them in the face of what we’d been discussing for a couple of weeks seemed like trying to use hand sanitiser as an antidote for blood poisoning.
