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Gender Equality, Careers and the Media
Helen Beedham interviews Baroness Shami Chakrabarti about how she has managed her career, bein...
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Peace's blog: Have you been pwned?
At a recent parent teacher information session, the Headteacher discussed the importance of on...
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Careers, Motherhood and Work / Life Balance
In this episode Helen Beedham of Cityparents chats to Sam Smith, CEO of FinnCap, about her car...
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Freddy's blog: Making new friends
Our big drive at the moment is to make new friends. It’s a strange mission to have in yo...
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Dolly's blog: Home alone
It’s been 12 years. Can I leave my kids on their own yet?! After a decade of ...
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Hayley's blog: Three
I realised as I was about to start writing this that, other than writing on here, I have writt...
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Rosie's blog: The rite of spring
The change of season is upon us and the warm sun and longer evenings are welcome as leaving fo...
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Sarah's blog: The guilt trap
I read an article once which I think summed it up perfectly – life as a working mum can ...
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Maria's blog: Light at the end of the tunnel
Only about 3 weeks ago all parents of year 6 found out which secondary school their kid/s will...
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Peace's blog: To board or not to board?
'I don't really care about going to this one, I just want to go to the one up the road...
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Freddy's blog: Being a boy-boy
World Book Day and lots of our children will have gone to school dressed up as their favourite...
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Dolly's blog: More or less?
I appear to have accidentally bought a house in France... Well, not a complete accident o...
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Caroline's blog: Hairspray and penalties
As a family with 2 working parents, we try to protect our downtime, and make sure our tots don...
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Hayley's blog: A different type of work life balance
Most of us walk the delicate tightrope that is known as work-life balance and it is a regular ...
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James's blog: Finding time for children to be children...
Last year I attended a career development course provided by my (then) employer. One ses...
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Rosie's blog: New Beginnings.
The New Year has started in our home with the usual taking-down of decorations and disposal of...
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Peace's blog: Seedless grapes and Artificial Intelligence
It's December! 'Tis the season to be merry. The glow of fairy lights and baubles creat...
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Freddy's blog: Events did not rhyme quite as he had thought
I write from work, where I’m under pressure after taking responsibility for a major proj...
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Ellen's blog: The wonderful NHS
I don’t think we have had a WorkLife Central blog yet about experiences of the NHS? Mine...
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Dolly's blog: Trick or treat
Controversy alert... When I was a kid, this time of year was all about bonfire night. Bon...
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Caroline's blog: Hat trick
They say all good things come in threes, but I have not, as yet, found any professional body w...
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Addy's blog: No Llama, No Drama
My 2 year old daughter has a t shirt that says “No Llama, No Drama” and I think I&...
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Marva's blog: Give it a rest
The children are back at school now after what, as I’m told by my 15-year-old son, was a...
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Hayley's blog: What do I tell my son?
Ok, so the title to this makes it sound like it’s going to be about something far more i...
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