MESSAGE FROM DIRECTOR OF CHILDREN’S SERVICES

Sent on behalf of Tolis Vouyioukas, Corporate Director, Children’s Services Directorate

Dear Colleague,

A brief note to wish you all happy Easter. I realise that for many of you, if not all, this is not quite what you had planned for this Easter. I do hope that you have a restful bank holiday weekend with your family and loved ones.

Thank you for all your hard work again this week. Your continued contribution, courage and determination to do the best that we all can to keep our vulnerable children and young people safe as well as provide the children of our key workers with a place at school and/or an early years setting is inspiring. As always, I am grateful to you all.

I am including a link to a video from Italy which grabbed my attention earlier this week for you to have a look at. I am sure it will boost your sense of hope during this time: https://youtu.be/MZWmikiJVIQ

‘Nothing but uncertainty is certain. Circumstances come together, only to fall apart moments or months later. And then, in a flash, we must rise up and regain our footing. In the rear view mirror, I now see clearly what escaped me then; it’s not that the ground underneath me was suddenly shifting; it’s that it is never still.’
– Alicia Keys, More Myself: My Journey

Take every good care.
Tolis Vouyioukas
Corporate Director
Children’s Services Directorate
Buckinghamshire Council

01296 383 104
tolis.vouyioukas@buckinghamshire.gov.uk

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