ewdevon.bsky.social
Children's advocate, Forest school leader, Right to play & Playing Out supporter.
Have been eg women's aid, law centre solicitor, legal researcher, foster parent, Pedal Power joint founder, Freiburg University lecturer, Guatemala Human Rights volunteer.
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We need to unlock the shame of victims and face up to what may be occurring in the background of our comfortable lives.
The book may be purchased
from www.iainpeters.com £18.00 inc p&p
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A critical book for everyone who just wants a good read, but an important book which could be used as a case study in training for police, social workers,health personnel and youth workers as well as an academic text for students of the social sciences.
Please share with your colleagues & friends.
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The author creates tumultuous emotions a helter skelter of despair and anguish towards a vivid embrace of adventure and pure delight.
A most compelling book and will offer something to everyone,with reflections belonging only to themselves and this is the power and skill of Iain's narrative.
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the "Corridor" unlocks the social taboos around acknowledging and facing up to child sexual abuse.
The author explores the issue of power and control and the vulnerabilities of the child exploited by persons in authority, who often have charismatic personality traits.
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The author takes us to his early childhood in Kenya, across Dartmoor, Cornwall, the Alps & the remote unclimbed peaks of Cordillera Darwin, Tierra del Fuego. The exploration & narration of the sexual abuse he experienced at an English Boarding School takes the reader vividly along the "Corridor"
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Really great to be getting such positive feedback - you don't have to be CSA survivor/ supporter nor a climber or mountaineer to find this book a powerful and compelling read.
All support and feedback welcome
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" about the survival, recovery, & creation of a life after being sexually abused as a child. It is beautifully written, full of detail that paints a vivid picture of place, time, events, & relationships without a consuming focus on the brutality or any attempt to elicit emotion in the reader."
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"Brilliantly well written!! It does create tumultuous emotions. A helter skelter of despair and anguish towards a vivid embrace of adventure and pure delight. ... I feel so positive about the book...it should be a bestseller!"
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www.iainpeters.com
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Yes! V much agree with you and disagree with Ofsted's claim that play is mindless. What do you think of Julian Grenier's view? www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
'Play ....needs to be considered and planned for as carefully as any other aspect of the provision.' Yes, as long as enables truly free play?
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Thank you for doing this hugely valuable work @sarahralph-lane.bsky.social & Amanda McBride. In my work I often see school staff being THE safety net for children who live in fear of violence at home, providing support way beyond their remit, with incredible determination, despite limited resources.
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Totally agree. Thank you for continuing to speak out on this. Companies primarily motivated by profit should not be given responsibilty for highly vulnerable children. I know of young people who did not feel "cared for" in unregulated homes. Obscene profit making in children's care is immoral.
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Thank you! Happy to be added to this
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yes, you're right- it was- Sorry, I shouldn't have started on here late last night🤪 got a bit more onto it today. Feels hopeful that this is a positive forum? Is there a verb equivalent to 'to tweet'?
Pity that the obvious abbreviation is BS...🤔
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Yes totally! So lovely tradition's living on in your family! Having been law centre solicitor etc I'm now doing outdoor work with kids who don't cope in schools. Bit like day-time FSC for those who need it most. Sometimes similar thinking on your feet skills needed like court work, but muddier...
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Thanks 🌞 You too! (Funny, I was saying last night as I signed up here, that Blue Skies is a greeting among FSCers. It was a profound influence, wasn't it..)
I wonder if there's a verb for here quivalent to 'tweeting/ to tweet) ?
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late to the Bluesky party here but YES! hearing and singing Deportees round the fire in my teens had huge impact on me too. Pete Seeger version's sill my go to.
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Thank you & @alisonstenning.bsky.social for this - really excellent & timely. Great contribution to urgently needed debate. Hope the key policy makers in health, transport & housing read it & are influenced