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Ensuring your I SBL skills are fit-for-purpose VAL ANDREW, programme manager for Best Practice Network DSBM Level 4 (among other things!) on how now is the right time to think about the future and burnish your, already impressive, SBL skills. 36
Summer 2022
have huge concerns about the overwhelming challenges that practitioners in the SBM/SBL profession are juggling at present. Every day, on social media, there is someone talking about frustrations, inequities, workload pressure, lack of support, lack of funds, lack of recognition and brain fog. Despite what the politicians would have us believe, the education sector (in common with the rest of the public sector) has been starved of investment for too long and the result is that just about everyone still working in schools is in danger of disappearing down the proverbial ‘rabbit hole’. We are all trying to do our very best for the children and young people in our schools – but with limited resources, and even less support. The climate across our schools is very different now, not least due to COVID, but on a number of other levels too. I’m reminded of the famous Pooh bear quote overleaf.