I have this morning finally done the inventory of most of my stuff with Social Workers-as required by stbx- and a plain clothes police woman! Apparently stbx has alleged that I have threatened her when talking with our eldest! I must move away before this goes any further. Lots of advice as the plain clothes police woman had decided to meet me today rather than on Friday so rather than just doing the inventory, we ended up in a meeting for about an hour. I should have reported every threat to the police. My brush with the law in 2006 when my stbx was threatening to stab me with a

I thought long and hard whether to blog the latest development in my working life but have decided to share my experiences with some constraints (forgive me if I sound like a member of MI6 but I have discovered the necessity of covering my back.) I have left my job. I have already commented on the violent start I experienced on the 1st day of term and I have worked long and hard to build up a rapport with the kids and our relationship was blossoming but the sheer volume of paperwork (some of which I've never heard of before)and the expectation that it was ok to work EVERY night until

Hi every-one, Thanks for all the comments and messages- much appreciated. I have been working non-stop and this is the first chance I've had to get on the blog. The child who hit me is now back in class and no further problems at the moment- the situation was not handled very well by management- he was supposed to be in a partner class for 2 days but turned up in mine after 1- when I queried it with management, it was apparently an oversight....... I have had a very turbulent 2 weeks-communication is a joke and I've already had my knuckles rapped for my poor behaviour management- and not