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Becca Dove

@beccadove2.bsky.social
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Doing relational things for London Borough of Camden. Social work doctoral researcher, Universiy of Northampton. Alumni, UNESCO Child & Family Research Centre. Views my own, said with love

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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
There was something deeply emotional about that. A graceful tribute from the heart, that honoured the long service made. Thank you for sharing.
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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Magic time at matinee of Arcadia at the Old Vic. Perfect casting and top notch performances. The evolution of Septimus and Thomasina's relationship was so good it made my heart smash into tiny pieces. Stoppard at his majestic best share.google/wM8YxYgo5SDb...
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Video: The cast of Arcadia - Old Vic Theatre
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Simon Parker @simonparker.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Loved chatting w @beccadove2.bsky.social and @andrewlaird.bsky.social for the Radical Reformers podcast. We majored on relational public services, digging into the history and asking how to embed real change today. Exciting moment. www.mutualventures.co.uk/post/radical...
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Radical Reformers ep.111: Making Relational Practice the Norm, with Becca Dove, Camden Centre for Relational Practice and Transformation and Simon Parker, Bath and North East Somerset Council
In the latest episode of Radical Reformers, I meet Becca Dove, Head of the Camden Centre for Relational Practice and Transformation and Simon Parker, Executive Director of Resources at Bath and North ...
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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Such a gorgeous building, one of my favourites in Holborn. If your editorial meeting is held there again, can highly recommend a 10 minute walk over to Holborn Library. It's just had a big renovation and is quite the joy to be in.
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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
After nearly 10 years of listening to you two, I would very much hope so!
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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Very much enjoying UCL's 'strong language' content warning on the booking page. Treating myself to Ian's category 4 swears for my birthday.
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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Sorry, missed Nancy's reply! Agree with you, odd not to use the overall ambition for young people as the frame/context for this debate.
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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The new Youth Strategy, whilst not all the things you mentioned, is actually pretty good. First time in a long time we've had some clarity/direction on youth policy and they did a lot on youth engagement for it. Effective join up between departments to deliver it remains the unknown
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
New post just out: "Power to the People" Today we have a guest post from @jamestplunkett.bsky.social on how Labour can counter the "Britain is Broken" narrative by investing in civic life and giving people more control over their community. (Free to read) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/p...
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Power to the People
How Labour can restore civic life and counter the "Britain is broken" narrative
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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Don't think the #REDJanuary crew are here but day 2 run in the woods was an absolute corker. Have it as a timeline cleanse if nothing else.
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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Enjoy Rilke. I was a latecomer to Letters to a Young Poet this year but it's the kind of writing that hits you in the soul in all the good ways. Now off to put Mother Mary on my book wishlist. Happy Christmas to you and yours, Trish
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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
For the love of all that is good and pure, don't open the box marked 'sticky stuff'.
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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Another cracking year for the utter carnage that is #DuvetKnowItsChristmas. The fundraiser for Centrepoint is well worth it so if you've got a few quid to chuck in, link is in @rhodri.biz's post 👇🏻. Rhodri, as ever you are a true gent🎄
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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Came here to say this. First heard it in the film Hannah and Her Sisters maybe 35 years ago. Gets me in the soul as much today as it did then.
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Simon Parker @simonparker.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Last month @nick80.bsky.social posted on LinkedIn seeking an accessible history of relational public services. I'm pleased to say myself, @beccadove2.bsky.social and @antlerboy.com have tried to rise to the challenge. We know it's incomplete but we hope it's useful. www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
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A Hundred Origin Stories – an Unfinished History of Relational Public Services
Simon Parker, Becca Dove and Benjamin Taylor explore the history of relational public services, ahead of Britian Renewed 2026, a major one-day conference exploring a more place-based approach to public service reform.
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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Fancy reading an unashamedly unfinished history of relational public services? @nick80.bsky.social asked his Linkedin network if such a thing existed. @simonparker.bsky.social, @antlerboy.com and I had a go, drawing on 200 comments on Nicks post. Its a fascinating story www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
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A Hundred Origin Stories – an Unfinished History of Relational Public Services
Simon Parker, Becca Dove and Benjamin Taylor explore the history of relational public services, ahead of Britian Renewed 2026, a major one-day conference exploring a more place-based approach to public service reform.
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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Mum to a first year A level politics student here. They seem SO engaged in the curriculum (with great teachers who use smart instruction design). Didn't imagine my 16 year old coming out of college fired up about FPTP to the point of chatting about it all the way home. And yet here we are.
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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... off topic but I must have listened to Russell's Reith Lectures a dozen times. Mainly because they're interesting but also because I get ensorcelled by his voice.
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The Reith Lectures - Bertrand Russell - Authority and the Individual - The Role of Individuality - BBC Sounds
Bertrand Russell argues for the importance of individual initiative in a community.
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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
As ever, this is sobering but nonetheless required reading on where public services find themselves in 2025 (and beyond) and why. Top notch work from the @instituteforgovernment.org.uk team.
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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
@theresthistory.bsky.social just did a series on Mary and talked a lot about Jenny Wormauld's biography. Not read it myself but it sounded both good and excoriating!
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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Chuckling here in Bedfordshire. Tempsford literally has the A1 running through it. It's not Asgard.
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Sure Start is coming back. The Labour government is to open 1000 Best Start Family Hubs covering every local authority. The first will be in place by April 2026 & all by 2028. They will combine existing Family Hubs & the Start for Life programme & also cover areas without these services. 1/2
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Government revives family services, supporting 500,000 more kids
Up to 1,000 Best Start Family Hubs to be rolled out across the country to provide wide-ranging help for families, such as parenting and early development.
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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Biased I may be but Camden young people really are something extraordinarily special. When the people closest to the system and the people most affected by the system come together to change the system, magic can happen. Cant wait to see where they take this next.
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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
3. 'Showing by doing' matters a whole lot more in relational practice training than whatever you've written on a slide deck. You know relational practice when you see it and feel it. Same deal must apply when you're teaching it.
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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
2. Our professional world in childrens services needs to shed its obsession with jargon and fancy words. We really really don't need it and we should examine why we think we do.
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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
So much to reflect on but three things at the front of my mind: 1. Young people know what they want and need from relationships with professionals. They'll tell you about it if you create a space that privileges their voice and influence. Lundy principles help participatory design no end.
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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
The young people are on a mission - to take Camden's relational practice framework, deconstruct it, and design a practice session they can deliver themselves. Their motivation? To make sure women and girls in difficult situations get a positive experience of the professionals who want to help them
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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Today was the first collaborative session of a group of Camden Youth Assembly members, Camden Youth Service, Fitzrovia Youth In Action and the Camden Centre for Relational Practice. Young people initiated the project after leading a youth assembly on VAWG last year.
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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
When young people design relational practice training in their own words, on their own terms. And a short thread of why community-led participatory design matters a great deal🧵
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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I'm so glad it's not just me, I keep expecting Steve Bunce to pipe up on the tiebreaks.
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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
I know the world is a bit of a bin fire and everything but for the love of all that is good and pure can someone please tell me how to turn off Copilot in Word.
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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Came home from the big shop with a Biscoff vienetta. I have never been more popular.
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ETSC - European Transport Safety Council @etsc.eu · 03/06/2025
Study on London 20 mph limits shows: - collisions ⬇️ 35% - casualties ⬇️ 36% - fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34% - child casualties ⬇️ 46% - child deaths ⬇️ 75% - walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28% etsc.eu/20mph-limits...
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20mph limits in London linked to sharp fall in road injuries and deaths, new report finds
A new study published by Transport for London (TfL) has shown that the introduction of 20mph speed limits and zones on local authority-managed roads in London between 1989 and 2013 led to significant…
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Luke Billingham @lbilli91.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
"I don't want to rise 'above' my community. I want to rise *with* it." This sentiment is often expressed to me by young people. They want individual success *and* to see improved conditions for all in their communities. This is a theme I explore in this blog: mabdallah.substack.com/p/mattering-...
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Mattering is not just inside people’s heads: Mattering, inequality, schools and solidarity
Luke Billingham is a youth worker for Hackney Quest and a Research Associate for the Open University.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 31/05/2025
This year London is the place to see a stellar line up of women’s sport. Top athletes from across the world are competing in the capital and inspiring the next generation across the city and the globe.
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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
You were in my mind today, Georgia. We were at the Living Centre with residents and children's services staff working together on our latest participatory design project. Think you would have loved it! Hope you and family are all well.
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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Might be of interest @cormacrussell.bsky.social @jamestplunkett.bsky.social @jimbaggaley.bsky.social
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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Enjoying this by Mark Furlong. Packed with practice ideas for folk working in public services to intensify their efforts to strengthen formal and informal social connections of the people they support (with good reason, not just 'coz').
A front cover of a book titled Building the Clients Relational Base: A Multidisciplinary Handbook by Mark Furlong. There is an image of Duplo blocks in red, blue, green and yellow in three rows on the diagonal.
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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
This from @pollymackenzie.bsky.social is so worth a read. "The future of the State is not just a technical project. It’s an emotional one. A politics that wants to build relational, preventative, participatory services must start by creating the emotional climate" www.linkedin.com/pulse/mobili...
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Mobilising the people to remake the state
A short essay to mark the relaunch of the think tank Reform as "Re:State". Read the full collection by following the link at the end.
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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
More of this please. Co-designing play spaces with children and young people near their homes led to “what researchers say is the highest increase in children’s physical activity ever recorded by an intervention of its kind”
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Bradford project produces ‘outstanding’ rise in children’s physical activity
JU:MP programme included co-design of play spaces, exercise in faith settings and interventions in schools
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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Every Child Matters. A real unifying vision for childhood that everyone could name and understand their part in it.And it was located in a broader range of cross-departmental policies that worked in service to it more often than not.
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James Plunkett @jamestplunkett.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Some thoughts sparked by a great event in Leeds yesterday on neighbourhood health and the UK government's Test, Learn and Grow intiative. How do we make neighbourhoods engines of change? medium.com/@jamestplunk...
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Neighbourhoods as engines of change
On the need for bridges from the edges to the centre
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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
I wish we talked more about social infrastructure in childrens services. Plus this from Geoff Mulgan & co re the effect of declining birthrates on social support networks. If we want strong social support for children, we'll need social infrastructure to enable it tial.org/news/designi...
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Designing institutions for a new demographic reality – TIAL
Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund, and the Institutional Architecture Lab (TIAL) have partnered to explore how institutional innovation can help Finland navigate the challenges of demographic transit...
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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Imagine my house riģht now with two teenage Barca supporters.
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Hannah Cornish @hannahcornish.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
I thought my first post on Bluesky should be something positive and motivational
Cross stitch embroidery of beetles and the words: But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything. C Darwin to C Lyell 1861
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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Too kind Autumn 🙏🏻 it's been a joyous thing from beginning to end.
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Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh 🚲 🌳🗻🎨✍️ @aroeschmarsh.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
This work is so inspiring ❤️
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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
As for next steps, the two groups now go on to collectively present their ideas to the Reform Board. Because it's their work - and they have an awful lot to be proud of. @jamestplunkett.bsky.social @danhonig.bsky.social @nick80.bsky.social may be of interest!
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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
3. We spent a big chunk of time on design justice, asking the question are these designs fair and are they just. The prototypes will undoubtedly change as a result. These conversations matter.
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Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
2. The 'coming together' space matters a LOT. These two groups committed to find common ground, to be in relationship with one another, including hearing the difficult, sticky stuff with grace. Every session was meticulously planned in support of that aim. The groups achieved it with room to spare.
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