Operational Director of Children’s Services - All my views are my own @Actn4ChildrScot
Joined May 2009
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8 Nov 2024
Great night at the #healthawards24 last night, so many deserving winners and amazing work being undertaken 🥰
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31 Oct 2024
📣 🥳 What a blast at the fun day last week in Clydebank highlighting our service!
This innovative work funded by West Dunbartonshire Council is exactly the type of action we need to #KeepthePromise to young people by 2030
📍 West Dunbartonshire
📷 Voices of the Promise Project
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29 Oct 2024
Fabulous event our teams attended at the weekend @Actn4ChildrScot @keenan_babs83
28 Oct 2024
We loved it!❤️
A special moment to join the Love Rally this weekend for #CareExperiencedWeek 2024, and deliver the message all children should grow up to feel loved.
Team AfC joined from Moray, Glasgow, East Lothian, Clackmannanshire, Ayrshire and Fostering alongside our C&YP
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24 Oct 2024
Fabulous event 🥰
24 Oct 2024
We are in Clydebank this afternoon for our Care Experienced Week celebrations and to launch our Voices of The Promise work! @Actn4ChildrScot @ThePromiseScot @WDCouncil
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Lesley Gordon retweeted
26 Sep 2024
The impact of caring for a family member can be profoundly damaging to a young carer’s education and life chances. A new report by @CarersTrust shows that young carers on average missed 23 days of school in 2022-23.
More info: carers.org/yceducation
ALT A young girls looks sadly out of a window
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20 Sep 2024
Great support for an excellent event 🥰
19 Sep 2024
🪩 All our volunteers excited to welcome over 750 music loving @actnforchildren supporters for tonight’s Never Mind the Bussiness in Glasgow 📸
The music quiz fundraising event is now celebrating its 20th year!
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Lesley Gordon retweeted
19 Sep 2024
It's great to be working in partnership with @WDCouncil @wdhscp to deliver the 'Voices of the Promise' project which aims to embed co-design, participation and youth engagement within systems across the local authority.
Stay tuned for more news on our work!
Our ‘Voices of the Promise’ team had a wonderful morning at West College Clydebank spreading the word of our new Promise Project across West Dunbartonshire @actnforchildren
@WDCouncil @WestCollScot
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Lesley Gordon retweeted
15 Sep 2024
We made it. Dobbie’s first kiltwalk at 12 weeks old! @thekiltwalk @actnforchildren @Actn4ChildrScot met the lovely Aditi who is walking for safe and happy childhoods. As am I! Still time to support me justgiving.com/page/cheryl-a…
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Lesley Gordon retweeted
9 Sep 2024
Today, we launch our UK-wide "Place to Call Home" report. Care systems across the UK are struggling to deliver good experiences & outcomes for every child in care. We examined the extent of the issues in each nation. The 4 reports are available here: actionforchildren.uk/APlaceT…
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Lesley Gordon retweeted
9 Sep 2024
📰 Check out @ThirdForceNews to find out more about our calls for faster reform in children's residential care...
National Director Fiona Steel (@FSeagle1) outlines why the sector, national, and local government need chnage to meet the Promise by 2030.
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Lesley Gordon retweeted
1 Jul 2024
Our Annual Conference is coming up in September, with this year's theme 'Developing Leaders for the Future'.
Register now to join us on 25 September at the TIC Building in Glasgow
🔗registerforevent.co.uk/swsan…
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20 Aug 2024
My friend Lesley Gordon is fundraising for Action for Children. Check out their @JustGiving page and please donate if you can. Thank you! #JustGiving justgiving.com/page/lesley-g…
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3 Aug 2024
Very insightful, profound and at times very funny event today discussing trauma and the journey to navigate true lived experience @lokiscottishrap @JaneyGodley thank you 🤩
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Lesley Gordon retweeted
2 Aug 2024
We’re excited to be working with @barnardos @HomeStartGNNL & @impact_arts in North Lanarkshire to support children & families. This is an amazing opportunity to be involved in a brand new service from the very start!
@Actn4ChildrScot
Please share ⬇️ careers.actionforchildren.or…
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31 Jul 2024
Excellent 🤩🤩
31 Jul 2024
We are delighted to announce our Inclusion as Prevention report is now out.🥳
This was a fantastic collaboration between @SouthLanCouncil , @Actn4ChildrScot and @DartingtonSDL to reshape services for children and young people at risk of offending.
Read here👇
cycj.org.uk/news/inclusion-a…
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Lesley Gordon retweeted
30 Jul 2024
We are recruiting for two Maternity Cover posts within our Glasgow Intensive Family Support team. This is a great (and rare!) opportunity to join a really supportive and fun team who are dedicated to walking alongside Glasgow families to help them thrive.
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25 Jul 2024
Delighted to be working alongside Cheryl-Ann, welcome to the team 🤩
23 Jul 2024
Welcome Cheryl-Ann Cruickshank! 👋
We're excited to announce Cheryl-Ann will join our team as an Operational Director in Scotland to help deliver our services.
Bringing over two decades of experience in the third sector and a strong passion for supporting children and families.
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Lesley Gordon retweeted
25 Jul 2024
Due to service growth, we are recruiting for an administrator to support some of our Glasgow services. Please share and get in touch if you would like a chat. @actnforchildren @Actn4ChildrScot @FSeagle1 @Les815
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Lesley Gordon retweeted
7 Jun 2024
It was great to see the focus on action at this week's @SOCTaskforce Criminal Exploitation awareness raising event in Edinburgh.
Paul Carberry, CEO at @actnforchildren and chair of SOC Taskforce Divert strand, welcomed around 200 guests and introduced a open from @AConstance23
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