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These are the things I know about imagination, trust, and the worlds people build when you stop correcting them, at eight or at eighty.

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Social Work England Is Under Independent Review. Here Is Why That Matters.

Social Work England Is Under Independent Review. Here Is Why That Matters.by: Kate

The regulator responsible for social work professionals has failed its fitness to practise standard for four consecutive years. Parliament mandated a review.

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Social Work England Is Under Independent Review. Here Is Why That Matters.

Gloucestershire Police: What the Inspectors Found

Gloucestershire Police: What the Inspectors Foundby: Kate

Three inadequate ratings. One adequate. One requiring improvement. The formal inspection verdict on how Gloucestershire Constabulary safeguards children at risk.

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Gloucestershire Police: What the Inspectors Found

What I Submitted to the Justice Committee: When Distance Has Nothing to Do With Miles

What I Submitted to the Justice Committee: When Distance Has Nothing to Do With Milesby: Kate

On 28 October 2025 the Justice Committee held an evidence session on family court reform. Kate was not in the room. Her evidence was.

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What I Submitted to the Justice Committee: When Distance Has Nothing to Do With Miles

Case No. 9: What Pakistan Put on Prime Time, and What England Refuses to See

Case No. 9: What Pakistan Put on Prime Time, and What England Refuses to Seeby: Kate

Case No. 9: What Pakistan Put on Prime Time, and What England Refuses to See In September 2025, Pakistan’s leading television channel, Geo Entertainment, aired a primetime drama called Case No. 9.

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Case No. 9: What Pakistan Put on Prime Time, and What England Refuses to See

BOOK KATE TO SPEAK

Build a world together, and trust follows.

Your people are being asked to trust each other across distance, across generations and through constant change. Most have never been shown how.

Kate Markland has. For a time she had one hour a week with her son Gabriel, on a FaceTime call. They spent it building a world. She asked one question, wrote down everything he said and corrected nothing. That world became three books and a method tested in nine UK schools.

In her keynote, Create the World You Want, Kate shows your audience how trust is really built, and gives them a method they can use the same evening.

For leadership, education and family audiences.

Even the kids who don’t like writing didn’t want to leave.
Tom Hirst Head of English, Dixons Manningham Primary
Even the kids who don’t like writing didn’t want to leave.
Tom Hirst Head of English, Dixons Manningham Primary

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