Happy Fluffy Bunnyland

After ten years of the relational practice movement: 

• There will be much less violence in prisons, and being a prison officer will be a much more satisfying job. Applications from heavies and thugs who wanted to legitimise their misanthropic world view will dry up. 
• Nurses will be able to us their own initiative to creatively and compassionately care for the people they are looking after 
• Social workers will be able to explore individual and family dynamics, and reduce risk by the quality of relationships they have with children and families. There will be far fewer child protection cases. 
• Residential care homes will all be enabling environments (though not necessarily Enabling Environments) and residential care work will be an attractive and reasonably paid job. 
• Employment and Housing offices won’t need heavy duty screens to protect staff from the public; nor will they need security guards. 
• Nowhere will need ‘zero tolerance of ….’ notices on the wall. 
• General Practice will be an attractive career option for medical graduates; ditto general and CAMHS psychiatry 
• Teachers won’t be frightened of OFSTED and children at school will enjoy a much richer, more artistic and cultural curriculum. SATs will have been replaced by improvement of standards by collaborative learning (and results will improve most where there is more collaboration) 
• Health service managers won’t game the system to get better metrics, but will all spend much of their time in staff sensitivity groups with clinicians, and sometimes service users too. 
• CQC inspections will be exploratory and supportive, with co-produced peer review and an emphasis on improvement rather than judgement. 
• In mental health services, coroners will be seen as helpful people rather than a faceless authority to be utterly feared. 
• Everybody in hospitals will be more worried about loneliness, emotional safety, single use plastics, food waste and UPF than ‘dangerousness’, floridly expressed emotion, ligature points or knives in kitchens. 
• Architects will be experts on relational as well as physical environments in all public service buildings and facilities; nature will always be a primary consideration. 
  
  
• Dixon of Dock Green will be back on telly, everybody will talk to each other at bus stops or on trains, there will be no wars or need for an army, 
• Social media will use AI to exclude anybody being horrid to anybody else, and we will all live in fluffy-bunnyland in good health till we die at 105 and Boris Johnson will be our happy jolly PM again.
  
  
•  Well, maybe not all of those.