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Anna Leach

Anna Leach

Jul 21, 2026

14:26
So let's have a look at a case study to help us.
14:31
So I want you to have a read of these notes.
14:34
So we have a single mother, unsupervised 10-year-old child, multiple lacerations by a family dog, two dangerous dogs in the home, poor supervision, neglectful parenting, safety concerns and risk, need for child protection, anxious, overwhelmed mother, she's not coping, no family support.
14:52
So I just want you to have a think of what those statements, what narrative you're starting to develop.
14:58
This is a deficit-based account of events.
15:01
Concerns are raised about a mother, her parenting choices in leaving her children home unsupervised, her choices by having multiple dangerous dogs in the family home and concerns regarding mother's mental health and support networks.
15:13
This erases context, places sole blame on the mother.

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Fiona FentonMODERATOR
26:13
Sorry.
30:09
Thank you very much for joining us Anna, over to you.
30:12
Thank you, and yeah it's not really the topic that's going to lead to lots of wide-scale good news and joy-joy feelings.
30:21
And thank you very much for presenting that analysis, which takes the bad news we already knew about in terms of the UK's good performance and really drills down into how bad and to really bring the joy.
30:36
But I think where Brexit sits for the UK is a suite of... difficult big challenges where the uk has really struggled with the trade-off point brexit really brought that to life the uk has struggled for years to decide who it wants to be and how it wants to play in the eu and that was that's all and migration has always been a sticking point but there have been many But it sits amidst a large number of areas where the UK struggles to make these really important trade-offs.
31:11
For example, infrastructure and housing delivery, we are not properly managing the balance between safety, the environment, and actual physical delivery, and we are slower and more expensive than pretty much anyone else in delivering major infrastructure.
31:28
We don't invest as a country, Brexit is part of that, the financial crisis was another part, but we keep inculcating an environment of profound uncertainty for businesses, for households, which really sucks up management time, slows decision-making, slows down and sometimes cancels out investment at all.
31:52
We have various other challenges as well, our tax system, very complex, quite pretty unstable, nowadays gets compared unfavorably with Italy's.
speaker_0NARRATOR
33:19
the US's role has been in the global geopolitical system over the

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