Leaders need to understand the relative merit of one spend over another

If I'd written a JD and person specification, I wouldn't have appointed myself

We'll have eight waves bearing down on us. Then twelve, and so on.

It has pushed me to take meaningful steps in response to the unexpected

The language of the moment is graphic. Yesterday's contributors predicted a 'tsunami' of safeguarding issues following each 'wave'.

The well is running dry and no amount of wishing will make things magically better