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Want to be a good manage? Then drop the metaphors
Beware the metaphor. Leaders open conferences, give keynote speeches and write blogs to explain and inspire. They like to use metaphors to freshen up what they say.But an over extended metaphor...
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Blair McPherson
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17 Jan 2013
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Councillor Camp - if you weren't there, why not? If you were ... what next?
I've read some great blogs about the success of Councillor Camp. Indeed, good on Futuregov for forcing the agenda and bringing together in one room possibly the most councillors EVER to talk...
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Sarah Jennings
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15 Jan 2013
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Two men overheard
Two men overheard leaving a restaurant. One says to the other “that was one of the worst meals I have ever eaten”. His companion replies “Yes, and such small portions”! Would it have been...
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Blair McPherson
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15 Jan 2013
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Heroes
The music industry and the wider world gets over excited about a new David Bowie single. The main reason seems to be no one saw it coming after all he hasn’t produced anything in the last ten...
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Blair McPherson
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14 Jan 2013
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Adoption map, a missed opportunity?
The Department of Education published a map showing the number of children waiting to be adopted last week; the map is useful however I couldn't help thinking that this was a...
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Richard Overy
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14 Jan 2013
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Should Everyone Use Open311?
Last week I posted about how at the moment digital is the preferred channel for reporting broken streetlights, flooding, potholes, fly tipping and so on to us. Then I read what...
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Phil Rumens
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13 Jan 2013
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Leadership development
This may be considered heresy but I have found the most effective leadership programmes to be within a departmen/ directoratet. My experience of corporate programmes across the whole organisation...
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Blair McPherson
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10 Jan 2013
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Future uncertain prospects unclear
The future for Local Government, the NHS and the Civil Service is uncertain as a consequence your career prospects as a manger are unclear. When the restructuring, outsourcing and downsizing is...
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Blair McPherson
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10 Jan 2013
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Which leadership syle is best for the public sector?
A recent report recommended that the public sector needs military style leadership if it is to get through these turbulent times. I'm not so sure... You wouldn't be surprised to hear that...
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Blair McPherson
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07 Jan 2013
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28th of January is a date for your diary (Community Manager Appreciation Day)
In 2010, Jeremiah Owyang declared every 4th Monday in January as “Community Manager Appreciation Day.” This day is meant to recognise and celebrate efforts of community...
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Michael Norton
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07 Jan 2013
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New Year’s resolution competition – Becoming a better sharer in 2013…
A new year means new beginnings. January is the month when people make commitments to change something for the better. It may be a chance to start a new diet, give up smoking or pick up...
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Knowledge Hub Team
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02 Jan 2013
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Help us to help you in 2013
Happy New Year everyone! I just wanted to write this quick blog to remind those who've received an email about our Knowledge Hub feedback survey, to please take a few minutes to fill it in for...
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Liz Copeland
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02 Jan 2013
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Is LocalGov GDS a contradiction in terms?
Over The last few months I’ve been involved with attempts to bring into being a local government response to the central Government GDS initiative (see www.gov.uk). This has been...
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Michael MacAuley
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28 Dec 2012
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2013 beyound the point of no return
We didn’t know it at the time but historians now pin point 2013 as the year we reached the tipping point. Imagine an astronaut who leaves the space station with an hours worth of oxygen on a...
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Blair McPherson
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27 Dec 2012
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Art for art's sake money for God's sake
If arts funding was for the opera or ballet then most people would not lose sleep over their loss of public funding. But arts funding from Local Authorities is not about opera or ballet it is...
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Blair McPherson
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20 Dec 2012
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Where's LocalGov Digital?
Where would you base a LocalGov Digital service or network, a practitioner group that's aligned with local government's sector-led improvement agenda? London? Edinburgh? Manchester?...
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Phil Rumens
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20 Dec 2012
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Managing knowledge in project environments
Back on the 5th of December I was asked if I could do a little presentation about Knowledge Management in a Project and Programme Environment at the newly formed APM Knowledge SIG It was a...
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Michael Norton
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20 Dec 2012
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Online Facilitators Community Newsletter (November/December Edition)
The last one before the Christmas break, and still lots to share. I just wanted to say thank you to Edmund Lee and the crew at English Heritage and a few of the Facilitators from the...
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Michael Norton
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20 Dec 2012
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VIDEO - How to get the most out of Knowledge Hub
Meet John. He works in local government. John recently got a new job and wanted to find out more about his role and connect with people across the sector. He joined the Knowledge Hub,...
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Knowledge Hub Team
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20 May 2014
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Beyond leadership
It takes a leader to transform a service(s) to build, to innovate to inspire but what happens when the task is to dismantle, to scale back, to down grade? Is it still leadership if you are...
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Blair McPherson
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17 Dec 2012
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Black staff are more likely to be disciplined
Not for the first time the NHS stands accused. This time it’s the Royal College of midwives who have identified that black staff are disproportionately subjected to disciplinary action....
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Blair McPherson
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14 Dec 2012
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Pensioners behind bars
This is the title of an ITV documentary to be broadcast on Thursday 13/12/12. The fastest growing section of the prison population is the over 60’s. Either due to longer prison sentences or...
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Blair McPherson
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10 Dec 2012
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And the winners of the Knowledge Hub photo competition are…
The tension has been building... The moment you’ve all been waiting for has finally come... It’s been a hard fought contest but the votes have been counted and we can now officially...
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Knowledge Hub Team
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10 Dec 2012
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Sing while you work
Did anyone catch that fabulous programme on BBC2 a couple of months ago – The Choir? I’m sure many of you will have heard of Gareth Malone and his work with the Military Wives choir. Well, his...
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Liz Copeland
Last updated:
07 Dec 2012
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Using Eventbrite with events on Khub
Recently there have been a few questions on how to use the events function on Khub and some discussion on using it to track event booking. It’s fair to say that Khub is designed to help...
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Michael MacAuley
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07 Dec 2012
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The best person or the right person for the job?
The City and Big business reject the idea of quotas as a way of ensuring board rooms are more representative they claim it’s about appointing the best person for the job. So why it is the best...
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Blair McPherson
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06 Dec 2012
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Management books for Christmas
Mastery is the latest management book by Robert Green. The book deals with how talent is developed with reference to Darwin, Einstein, Goethe (author of Faust) and John Coltrane. The message of...
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Blair McPherson
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04 Dec 2012
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Profile picture competition finalists - VOTE for your favourite
So it’s that time of year again. The nights are getting longer. The days are getting colder. Woolly gloves, scarves and jumpers are becoming mandatory to face the chilly weather...
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Knowledge Hub Team
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03 Dec 2012
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Impersonating a manager
Are you trying to be something you’re not? Are you trying to convince others you are something you’re not? Are you guilty of impersonating a manager? During the Second World War Clifford...
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Blair McPherson
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03 Dec 2012
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Local Gov On The Go
In October we launched the mobile version of our site, you can see it by going to www.westberks.gov.uk on a mobile device or tablet. It’s really a stopgap until we kick off a proposed project to...
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Phil Rumens
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03 Dec 2012
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Will elected Police Commisioners lead to greater confidence and trust in the police?
The new police and crime commissioners didn’t get off to a good start. Record low turnouts to vote indicate that the public were not interested in who got the job nor were they excited about the...
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Blair McPherson
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30 Nov 2012
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Why I'm Not Creating A New Google
Over the past couple weeks I’ve been experimenting, creating search functionality based on local public services. So far I’ve used data from Elgin, Environment Agency, Food Standard...
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Phil Rumens
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30 Nov 2012
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From Shameless to Shameful
I have a friend who works for a Housing Association in a very deprived part of Manchester. She is angry and upset on behalf of tenants many of whom are unemployed or disabled, all are...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:
30 Nov 2012
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Will local government still attract leaders?
To lead is to inspire but what is left to get inspired about in this rump of a Local Government? Isn’t this what the leader of Birmingham City council meant when he described a future in...
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Blair McPherson
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26 Nov 2012
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Involving and evolving
I had the pleasure of attending a very interesting Melcrum member event last week, which aimed to explore how delegates could maximise the strategic impact of their internal communications with...
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Liz Copeland
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26 Nov 2012
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Where does loyalty end?
You wouldn't want your staff to drop you in it but has any manager the right to expect unconditional loyalty? Does you loyalty extend to covering up for your manager...
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Blair McPherson
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22 Nov 2012
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Stepping aside
Senior managers don’t get the sack they resign. Senior managers don’t get suspended they go on” gardening leave” or they did, now it appears they step aside. The ordinary folk may get suspended,...
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Blair McPherson
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20 Nov 2012
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Mo's beginning to grow
Two and a half weeks into Movember we have been laughed at (many times) encouraged and stared at but on the whole Movember has been nothing but fun, with the bonus of raising a few quid for...
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Richard Overy
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21 Nov 2012
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So should we get rid of the Chief exec?
Nothing personal but let’s get rid of the chief executive. So says Eric Pickles the government minister for local government. For starters he plans to make it cheaper and quicker but his ultimate...
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Blair McPherson
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19 Nov 2012
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We can do without senior managers with "good ideas"
I have known some very successful chief executives who have never had a good idea of their own but all of them could recognise one when they saw one. In the current harsh financial climate we...
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Blair McPherson
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16 Nov 2012
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Moustache Hygiene
I've become very aware recently of the trials and tribulations of moustache hygiene and etiquette recently. The sudden catapult into the financial exploitation of follicular facial...
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Michael MacAuley
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16 Nov 2012
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just a link to my movember page
anyone who is interested can check out my Movember updates here: http://mobro.co/gavincrosby
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Gavin Crosby
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15 Nov 2012
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The over achievers
In every aspect of life he did better than he should. He was over promoted at work, his wife was out of his league and he managed to buy his grand house when prices were low and mortgages were...
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Blair McPherson
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16 Nov 2012
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Here is the missing post- Better to seek forgiveness than ask permission
Have you a management philosophy? Mine is if its not explicitly against the rules then I can probably get away with it. As a senior manager I told a large gathering of managers that they should...
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Blair McPherson
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12 Nov 2012
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I got a bigger response from an article I failed to post
I blog for the Health Service Journal (HSJ) and have always sent in my article for them to post. This means they decide if and when it appears. A change of personnel and Andrew has taken over, he...
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Blair McPherson
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08 Nov 2012
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It's the medium not the message
As we get excited about the potential of social networking and the social media for local government, how do we ensure the message is not lost in the preoccupation with the medium? ...
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Blair McPherson
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07 Nov 2012
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Can we still afford Equal Opportunities?
The Government doesn’t think so. They certainly think we can’t afford the Equality and Human Rights Commission in its present shape and size. The new chair Baroness O’Neil is getting rid of some...
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Blair McPherson
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06 Nov 2012
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Is this really the end of Local Government as we know it?
The leader of Birmingham City council thinks so. A 50% cut in budget over the next 3 years coupled with an increasing number of older people will mean the local council will no longer be able to...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:
05 Nov 2012
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Movember Newbies
Five brave souls from Telford & Wrekin's Development Plans Team have decided to take part in Movember this year. Day four and my horseshoe/chopper style is at that 'are you growing a...
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Richard Overy
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04 Nov 2012
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Shocking but hardly surprising
Some people will be genuinely shocked at the prison sentences handed out to staff who worked at the Winterbourne Hospital/ Home for people with learning disabilities. Shocked that you can get...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:
02 Nov 2012
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