Published by The International Centre for Therapeutic Care
Editor This book is described on the cover as “Packed with wacky characters, funny rhymes and lots to touch and feel”. The story line is that Rob the Penguin thinks of being other colours, like the yellow lion, the red fox and the pink flamingo, before deciding to remain black and white like all the other … Read more
This book is not taxing to the reviewer as it consists of sixteen pages of stiff board, including the covers. Each page, or double spread, is devoted to pictures of different types of transport, with bright pictures of planes, cars, boats, lorries etc. It is nicely produced and will no doubt stand up to being … Read more
The book was triggered by Sam and Rose asking their father, Roger Priddy, “Where is Senegal?” The result is something which is aimed at junior school children – just over ninety pages of information, pictures, maps and flags of every country in the world. They emphasise the fact that every country is mentioned. I thought … Read more
It does not say anywhere on the cover that this book was written for children, but the two key characters are teenagers, and it is written in a direct style that should go down well with a younger readership. The storyline is an interesting blend of three elements. The Boxing Day tsunami of 2004 happens … Read more
This is an unusual book, but really good fun. The basic story is that the clothes in a hire shop come to life and develop their own characters. There is a murder, and the deer-stalker outfit is called in by the others to do his Sherlock Homes bit. If you want to know who did … Read more
The following meetings of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Children (APPGC) have been arranged for December and for early in the New Year: Tuesday 5 December 2006 – Children, HIV, Asylum & Immigration: joint meeting with the APPGs for Aids and for Refugees Thursday 11 January 2007 – What is the role of the … Read more
Review by Angie Bartoli, Senior Lecturer at University of Northampton Global Perspectives on Foster Family Care is reminiscent of a back-packing tour one might take during a gap year, full of intriguing pit-stops, some of which you might return to for a longer stay in the future. The book includes ten very different countries: Argentina, … Read more
This article will draw on ideas from lifespace theory and how they can be used during training courses for residential workers. One of the most useful, fruitful and illuminating models I have found of understanding the work of residential childcare has been that of lifespace. When I was undertaking my own social work training I … Read more
I heard something on the News today that surprised me and it took a few moments to work out why that was. It was an item about child poverty in the United Kingdom and the fact that there are more children and their families living in absolute poverty now that there have ever been. Rural … Read more
This Green Paper was launched by the Department for Education and Skills on Monday 9 October 2006, and consultation closes on Monday 15 January 2007. The summary below was prepared by Nicola Hilliard, Head of Library and Information Services at the National Children’s Bureau, and we are grateful to the NCB for permission to reprint … Read more
Every generation thinks that the present is more wonderful, or more threatening, than at any time in the past, depending upon the level of their optimism and pessimism. Whether it is the millennium, the Black Death or the Cold War, there are always people around who think that the world is coming to an end, … Read more
A mixture of news items, future events, sales pitches, comments and whimsies, including the NCB, NCERCC, bullying, sitting, discrimination in transport, and ways to end conferences. NCB There was a time when people thought you were talking about the National Coal Board, but now the National Children’s Bureau has sole claim to the initials (if … Read more