#162 Taking Action for Equity in Children's Services with Laurelle Brown
Welcome to the 162nd episode of the award-winning Diverse Minds podcast. It’s Black History Month and this year's theme is Time for Change: Action Not Words. This week we are focussing on social care and making it more inclusive. To do this, I am joined by Laurelle Brown, Founder and Director of Laurelle Brown Training and Consultancy.
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Show Notes
Welcome to the 162nd episode of the award-winning Diverse Minds podcast.
It’s Black History Month and this year's theme is Time for Change: Action Not Words. This week we are focussing on social care and making it more inclusive. To do this, I am joined by Laurelle Brown, Founder and Director of Laurelle Brown Training and Consultancy.
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About my guest
Laurelle is a senior Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) and Youth and Community Work Professional with over 18 years of experience in the third, private and public sectors.
Laurelle has spent her entire career fostering greater equity and inclusion within services and practice in various capacities, from volunteer to systems leadership roles. She led or formed part of project teams delivering organisational EDI programmes, including at Barnet Council, The Children’s Society, London Violence Reduction Unit and the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime.
At LBTC, Laurelle and her team of Associates have collaborated with a range of public,
private and third sector clients to cultivate inclusive organisations through unapologetic,
intentional, and non-judgemental conversation and education, that enables the making good of commitments and intentions through action and impact. Laurelle is also Co-Founder and Director of KIJIJI, a membership organisation for Black Safeguarding Professionals
In today’s show
- About Laurelle and the work she does. [02:11]
- Why she decided to work in the safeguarding sector. [04:21]
- What the term "inclusive services" means to her. [07:14]
- Some things social services as a whole could be doing differently [12:59]
- Her top 3 tips for looking after her mental health. [25:18]
Quotes
- Inclusive services are services that allow people to thrive in their work.
- People in social services roles do an incredible job.
- Thinking about how I look after my mental health is really important for me.
- One of the most important things that I do is manage exposure to content and stress, which I think has a massive, positive impact on my mental health.
- Routinely getting this feedback and using it to inform the design and delivery of our practice and our services is very important.
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