Knowledge and understanding of neurodivergence combined with a willingness to put this into action are the resources needed for teachers and education settings to provide shame sensitive education for all children.

In social work we often talk about professional curiosity, which can be a helpful idea to encourage social workers to be critically reflective, to look beneath the surface and consider a range of hypotheses. Personally, the phrase professional curiosity doesn’t leave me feeling particularly inspired. ​ "Wondering", might not sound as clever, but feels more like what I am doing as a social worker and supervisor.

When a child welfare professional asserts that they are acting in the best interests of the child, what does this implicitly say about the parent’s best interests? Do we start to enter a space where the best interests of the child and of the parent are classed as being different, or even at odds with each other?