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Becca Dove

@beccadove2.bsky.social

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Doing relational things for Children & Learning, LB Camden. Social work doctoral student @ Northampton Uni studying kids social support and social infrastructure. Alumni @UNESCO Child & Family Research Centre. Views my own, said with love

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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · Nov 11

Looks like the social work crew are starting to arrive on here, so I've had a first go at making a starter pack. Let me know if you want adding on, plenty of room for everyone! go.bsky.app/56PBom2

Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · Aug 17

@theresthistory.bsky.social just did a series on Mary and talked a lot about Jenny Wormauld's biography. Not read it myself but it sounded both good and excoriating!

Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · Jul 27

Chuckling here in Bedfordshire. Tempsford literally has the A1 running through it. It's not Asgard.

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · Jul 6

Sure Start is coming back.

The Labour government is to open 1000 Best Start Family Hubs covering every local authority. The first will be in place by April 2026 & all by 2028.

They will combine existing Family Hubs & the Start for Life programme & also cover areas without these services.

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Government revives family services, supporting 500,000 more kids

Up to 1,000 Best Start Family Hubs to be rolled out across the country to provide wide-ranging help for families, such as parenting and early development.

Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · Jul 1

Biased I may be but Camden young people really are something extraordinarily special. When the people closest to the system and the people most affected by the system come together to change the system, magic can happen. Cant wait to see where they take this next.

Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · Jul 1

3. 'Showing by doing' matters a whole lot more in relational practice training than whatever you've written on a slide deck. You know relational practice when you see it and feel it. Same deal must apply when you're teaching it.

Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · Jul 1

2. Our professional world in childrens services needs to shed its obsession with jargon and fancy words. We really really don't need it and we should examine why we think we do.

Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · Jul 1

So much to reflect on but three things at the front of my mind:

1. Young people know what they want and need from relationships with professionals. They'll tell you about it if you create a space that privileges their voice and influence. Lundy principles help participatory design no end.

Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · Jul 1

The young people are on a mission - to take Camden's relational practice framework, deconstruct it, and design a practice session they can deliver themselves.

Their motivation? To make sure women and girls in difficult situations get a positive experience of the professionals who want to help them

Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · Jul 1

Today was the first collaborative session of a group of Camden Youth Assembly members, Camden Youth Service, Fitzrovia Youth In Action and the Camden Centre for Relational Practice. Young people initiated the project after leading a youth assembly on VAWG last year.

Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · Jul 1

When young people design relational practice training in their own words, on their own terms.

And a short thread of why community-led participatory design matters a great deal🧵

Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · Jun 30

I'm so glad it's not just me, I keep expecting Steve Bunce to pipe up on the tiebreaks.

Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · Jun 29

I know the world is a bit of a bin fire and everything but for the love of all that is good and pure can someone please tell me how to turn off Copilot in Word.

Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · Jun 29

Came home from the big shop with a Biscoff vienetta. I have never been more popular.

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ETSC - European Transport Safety Council @etsc.eu · Jun 3

Study on London 20 mph limits shows:
- collisions ⬇️ 35%
- casualties ⬇️ 36%
- fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34%
- child casualties ⬇️ 46%
- child deaths ⬇️ 75%
- walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28%

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20mph limits in London linked to sharp fall in road injuries and deaths, new report finds

A new study published by Transport for London (TfL) has shown that the introduction of 20mph speed limits and zones on local authority-managed roads in London between 1989 and 2013 led to significant…

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Luke Billingham @lbilli91.bsky.social · Jun 7

"I don't want to rise 'above' my community. I want to rise *with* it."

This sentiment is often expressed to me by young people. They want individual success *and* to see improved conditions for all in their communities.

This is a theme I explore in this blog:
mabdallah.substack.com/p/mattering-...

Mattering is not just inside people’s heads: Mattering, inequality, schools and solidarity

Luke Billingham is a youth worker for Hackney Quest and a Research Associate for the Open University.

mabdallah.substack.com

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · May 31

This year London is the place to see a stellar line up of women’s sport.

Top athletes from across the world are competing in the capital and inspiring the next generation across the city and the globe.

Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · May 29

You were in my mind today, Georgia. We were at the Living Centre with residents and children's services staff working together on our latest participatory design project. Think you would have loved it! Hope you and family are all well.

Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · May 28

Might be of interest @cormacrussell.bsky.social @jamestplunkett.bsky.social @jimbaggaley.bsky.social

Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · May 28

Enjoying this by Mark Furlong. Packed with practice ideas for folk working in public services to intensify their efforts to strengthen formal and informal social connections of the people they support (with good reason, not just 'coz').

A front cover of a book titled Building the Clients Relational Base: A Multidisciplinary Handbook by Mark Furlong. There is an image of Duplo blocks in red, blue, green and yellow in three rows on the diagonal.

Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · May 27

This from @pollymackenzie.bsky.social is so worth a read. "The future of the State is not just a technical project. It’s an emotional one. A politics that wants to build relational, preventative, participatory services must start by creating the emotional climate" www.linkedin.com/pulse/mobili...

Mobilising the people to remake the state

A short essay to mark the relaunch of the think tank Reform as "Re:State". Read the full collection by following the link at the end.

www.linkedin.com

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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · May 23

More of this please.

Co-designing play spaces with children and young people near their homes led to “what researchers say is the highest increase in children’s physical activity ever recorded by an intervention of its kind”

Bradford project produces ‘outstanding’ rise in children’s physical activity

JU:MP programme included co-design of play spaces, exercise in faith settings and interventions in schools

www.theguardian.com

Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · May 22

Every Child Matters. A real unifying vision for childhood that everyone could name and understand their part in it.And it was located in a broader range of cross-departmental policies that worked in service to it more often than not.

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James Plunkett @jamestplunkett.bsky.social · May 9

Some thoughts sparked by a great event in Leeds yesterday on neighbourhood health and the UK government's Test, Learn and Grow intiative. How do we make neighbourhoods engines of change?
medium.com/@jamestplunk...

Neighbourhoods as engines of change

On the need for bridges from the edges to the centre

Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · May 10

I wish we talked more about social infrastructure in childrens services. Plus this from Geoff Mulgan & co re the effect of declining birthrates on social support networks. If we want strong social support for children, we'll need social infrastructure to enable it tial.org/news/designi...

Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · May 6

Imagine my house riģht now with two teenage Barca supporters.