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“Language matters.” This is a catchphrase I first heard from my Practice Leader, Fiona Harkness, within the Te Tai Tokerau ki te Tonga RTLB Cluster 2 and one which I soon came to adopt and use myself. It is also an idea that Fiona subsequently explored in her Master’s thesis, Language Matters: Developing Inclusive, Strengths-Based Practice in an RTLB Cluster (2019), and in the article, “Language Matters: Developing Inclusive, Strengths-Based Practice in a Cluster of Resource

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