Openers... Openers... Openers... O Celebrating Success The latest cohort of newly qualified social workers with Torbay Council’s Children’s Services team are celebrating passing. Krystal Erasmus, Liz Cooper, Angela Findlay, Natasha Hughes and Lois Dark were all presented with their certificates by Councillor Cordelia Law, Cabinet Member for Children’s Services for Torbay, and Nancy Meehan, Interim Director of Children’s Services for Torbay Council. They have all recently completed their
Speaking Penguin A penguin chick at Living Coasts has been learning its own language by listening to recordings of adult birds. Keepers at Torquay’s coastal zoo played a digital recording of the zoo’s colony of African penguins during feeding times while the chick was being handreared away from the other birds. Senior Keeper Jason Keller explained, “We want this chick to grow
Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE) for children’s social care with the Council. The ASYE aims to ensure that all newly qualified social workers receive dedicated, consistent and effective support in their first year of practice, enabling them to approach their career in social work with confidence. Angela said: “I felt proud to have successfully achieved getting through the ASYE programme and it was lovely to be able to celebrate this with my colleagues.”
they reach breeding age, but youngsters can be mischievous and disruptive in the meantime.” The sounds help get the chick used to the complex din of a penguin colony, and forge an association between penguin noise and food. Jason said, “We’re basically teaching it to speak penguin!” Living Coasts is home to 12 macaroni penguins and 65 African penguins.
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up as a penguin and not think of itself as a human. Inevitably, hand-reared birds become imprinted – they respond to the keepers as if they are their parents. Penguins tend to lose this imprinting when 6 | April/May 2020
Torbay Ladies Lounge, a place for vulnerable women to meet, share and find support has been awarded £10,000 by the Devon Community Foundation. The Lounge provides an opportunity for ladies to take part in craft activities, meet and chat with others and eat a hot meal. They can feel safe among its women volunteers, who are
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