{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"The Kindness Code - Episode 10 - with Jane Keenan","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/69c540df9b6be94a1a8184c6/1781032067156-b7cecee6-4c15-4ae0-92cc-f38b28a4ffe9.jpeg?height=200","description":"

\"Amplify us. Don't drown us out.\"

That's the line a care-experienced adult posted on LinkedIn..and it stopped Jane Keenan in her tracks.


37 years in children's social care. Books, a directorship, a wealth of hard-won knowledge. And yet Jane is clear about where the most powerful shift in the sector is coming from right now: not from professionals like her. From the voices of care-experienced adults themselves.

The easy mistake ..the ego mistake.. is to make it about us. Look at me, helping these poor kids. I know what they need. Well-meaning. Heart-led, even. And still drowning out the people who actually lived it.


So Jane chose a different role: amplify, don't eclipse.


Use the platform to lift those voices, then step back.


\"If the adults around the child can't see a bright future for them, how is the child meant to see it for themselves?\"


The headlines fixate on prison, addiction, homelessness.


The truth is most care leavers don't end up there. So where are those stories?


That's the work. Believe louder. Take up less space.


","author_name":"Carmel Saulbrey"}