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From one of the slides I use when delivering training. We must understand the difference between accepting behaviour, and endorsing behaviour. They are very different, yet I often see them confused with each other.

Dr Sue Morris-King (Deputy Director for Schools and Early Education at Ofsted) tells MPs that schools with good levels of attendance think of it ‘like safeguarding’.

How many of these children were in the care system? Or on the edge of care? Or living in poverty?

Maybe if we had shorter working days, we could have shorter school days, and (as a result) shorter holidays. We still seem to be stuck in a 9 to 5 mentality when it clearly isn’t necessary and clearly doesn’t work.

What strikes me is the sense of belonging. “If I contribute to the house, I must belong.” Many older children in care don’t have this and desperately need it.

I just took an early evening walk around my village. Lots of families live here. (Our primary school has two classes of 30 for each year group.) You wouldn’t know that—because none of the children who live here are outside.

I’m hoping we’ve reached a tipping point where things are starting to change. Currently, kids *can’t* go out unless they have their phones, and even if they do go out without them, they’re met with friends who are on their phones.

In 2012, I became a foster parent. My three kids arrived. I loved them, but didn’t understand how their trauma had changed them, and what I needed to do to help them. Psychologists saved us. I’m about to turn 40 and am entering the third year of a psychology degree.