Comms for Kids

I’m back from Canada (with heat exhaustion!) and hugging the CN Tower has got me thinking about our aspirations for children and young people. Forgive the dramatics (there’s more to come) but wow, you know that feeling just before a Scottish thunderstorm when it’s so humid and the air needs cleared? Well, max on that feeling. In fact, max on it a thousand times! No joke, the humidity levels whilst out there reached feels like temps of 47⁰ and had me diving head first into t

I recently lost my voice! No joke. It dawned on me that things were pretty bad when I couldn’t utter those three little words…”vanilla latte please” in my local coffee shop. It got worse. I had to pull out of supply. You try teaching a 30 plus class with literally no voice, never mind the projection that’s needed. Same with tutoring as with even the best theatrical skills in the world, miming is not enough. However, this whole lack of access to my vocal chords got me thinki

Child safeguarding failures show the urgent need for an independent whistleblowers office and for politicians to not look away. As published in Scotsman on 21/2/26... Some books stay with you, or at least they should. I know that Holly’s will be one of them and I hope that Edinburgh’s councillors will read it thoroughly and choose not to look away. I read the aptly named ‘I Thought You Cared’ in one sitting. It’s the brave and inspirational story of a child abuse survivor and