I'm an ex-corporate lawyer who left the City three years ago after four years (so not a huge amount of experience) for family (new baby) and health (serious illness diagnosis) reasons. I've since had baby#2 and baby #3 is due at Christmas, after which I want to go back to work.
I've done a lot of volunteering whilst 'off' and am now on the Board of a large not for profit which works to help underprivileged and vulnerable children where I currently live (not in the UK).
Because of this and personal experiences with (the equivalent here of) social services I'm really inspired to use my legal skills to help similar children in the UK (we're moving back permanently in a month) but don't know how-all I can find are jobs in private practice for people to fight social services' decisions. I want to work to help organisations like social services, the NSPCC etc protect vulnerable children and help them find safe futures.
We won't be living in London again, but does anyone know where to look for jobs like this? I realize I'll likely have to go in at the very bottom (my speciality was corporate tax which is obviously not relevant!) and that's fine. I just would appreciate some initial direction.
Thanks.
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corduroybear · 21/07/2014 12:25
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