It has been an interesting year.
On the positive side, I am completely
fulfilled at my current school. I feel valued, part of a real team and
community, and have been given challenges that inspire me. I have never been
this happy to go into work every morning.
Also, on the whole, this blog has had a
positive impact: it has been cathartic and so helpful for my mental health. It
has enabled me to record all the traumatic events that happened to me (and
colleagues) at my previous school, as well as the lack of accountability and
collusion that has continued to this day. I have had a lot of support from
people who read the blog which has also been extremely healing.
On the negative side, at times the blog
has been quite triggering. I have been honest and written at great length about
the frustration of spending hours trying to get some form of accountability
from the establishment. I have been in communication with:
o the school itself,
o its Chair of Governors,
o the council's HR,
o its LADO,
o its legal department,
o the DfE,
o Ofsted,
o the Local Government and Social Care
Ombudsman,
o the ICO,
o the press,
o a councillor,
o the mayor's office,
o the lovely people at Protect,
o and of course many ex-colleagues
and parents who also suffered from the toxic culture of the previous
school.
And still - very little
accountability.
There has been no official
acknowledgement of the wrong-doings of my previous head and the pain they are
responsible for.
The council is still stalling to agree
to reopen whistle-blowing procedures. It has been stated, by people I would
argue are far more competent than the 'independent' investigator hired by the
council, that such a process would very much be in the public interest.
I will be taking a break from the blog
for Christmas – I owe it to my family. However, there is a little something
that I may be able to publish here over the next couple of days – keep your
fingers crossed for me and watch this space…
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