A Worldwide Dose of Kindness
A Worldwide Dose of Kindness Thank you. Simply thank you to everyone for your response to Coronavirus. Mobilising an organisation the size of ours, with all our commitments to other organisations, and the lead role we have in Somerset has been incredible to see – electric at times. As I write, the majority of us have been working at home for seven days (not including the weekend). That’s seven-days of Skype, Teams, telephones, emails. Crikey, the emails… New policies, guidance, planning, interpretation of national instruction. Views and advice that change and are out-of-date after 24-hours. It’s tough and I don’t mind admitting that I’m finding it difficult at times. I miss the people I work with; work is a social setting, we are social creatures. And it’s tough, because we work in public services to improve lives, strengthen communities and to ‘do the right thing’. And I see many friends in local authorities and the NHS really struggling; this is somet...