Published by The International Centre for Therapeutic Care
Editor Roderick Williams Baritone Elizabeth Atherton Soprano Iain Burnside Piano This is the first time we have reviewed a CD in the Webmag, and so it is a pleasure to say that this CD is most enjoyable. It is important to say what it is and what it is not, however. There is a total of … Read more
The first Adoption Diary appeared in the September Webmag. We introduced you to Caroline and Roger, adoptive parents through voluntary adoption agency Parents And Children Together, or PACT. Telling it “warts and all”, they hope to inspire others to consider adopting one of the 5000 children annually who are looked after by local authorities. The … Read more
The dramatic increase in the number of unaccompanied minors has created two distinct issues for these children, as well as for immigration officers, judges, social workers, and advocates. These groups are forced to wrestle, first, with the problems posed by unaccompanied minors’ care and custody, and second, with the evaluation of any legal claims they … Read more
The Launch 27 September 2006 saw the launch of an unusual but hopefully important manifesto seeking to improve the system of care for children and young people who are in residential and foster care. There will be elections to the Scottish Parliament next May and it is with the aim of influencing all the parties … Read more
Book Review by Sue Kennedy This is a very timely book in a current climate that is placing children and childhood firmly on the public agenda with increasing legislation, advocacy and children’s rights alongside a media interest that on the one hand produces headlines that suggests that children and young people’s behaviour is to be … Read more
April 2002 The Webmag focused on creative writing in this issue. Phil Carradice gave advice about ways of encouraging children to write in order to express themselves and use writing as a way of framing things that matter to them. He mentioned objects and other people’s writing as stimuli, though personally Phil found the publisher’s … Read more
A mixture of news items, future events, sales pitches, comments and whimsies, including five campaigns, unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors, children’s origins and a bunch of quickies A Good Deal The Samaritans have launched a programme called DEAL (Developing Emotional Awareness and Learning) in schools, to improve the emotional health of young people across the UK and … Read more
This advertising feature was sent to us. As with all such items, we do not endorse the products as we have not tested them, but we only publish items which appear to be of interest, or which provide useful information. With Christmas fast approaching, parents of young children everywhere are hitting the high street in … Read more
This advertising feature was sent to us. As with all such items, we do not endorse the products as we have not tested them, but we only publish items which appear to be of interest, or which provide useful information. Choosing the right toys for babies and children has just got easier with the launch … Read more
There has been an increasing emphasis on children’s rights for the last twenty or thirty years. We have got well away from the era when children were meant to be “seen and not heard”, when adults took all the significant decisions and when children were generally not encouraged to think for themselves too much or … Read more
This is a new project that will be launched on 2 November 2006, aimed at bringing together social work practitioners in children’s services and academics to review new and earlier literature on the subject of children. The idea came about from work with students undertaking the MA Child Care Studies and the Post-Qualifying Child Care … Read more
Religious faiths have been in the news a lot recently. There was the teaching assistant dismissed for wearing a veil. There has been the attempt by the Government to insist that a quarter of the intake of state-funded faith-based schools should be pupils of other faiths. And there is the ever-present unease that the wars … Read more