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AGONY UNCLE

I work for a charity supporting care leavers, something I’ve been doing for the past nine years. Parts I love – particularly when you see you’re really making a difference to a service user. But the working conditions have ground me down.

There is a culture of bullying, and pressure to reduce our time with clients. Pay has been squeezed. Meanwhile the CEO is known

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