Published by The International Centre for Therapeutic Care
Editor This is the third and last episode in Caitlin’s story. Her mother had died and she became distraught, realising she was now on her own, and living in a children’s home. If you want to read the first two, click here – Caitlin Part 1, Caitlin Part 2. When I had calmed down Jane took … Read more
Throughout my working life I had been positively and negatively influenced by the impact of being managed, both as a basic-grade staff member and as a manager. I would like to believe that being subject to poor management would not impact on my motivation and desire to positively work with and influence the lives of … Read more
Review by Sue Kennedy Click For More Info Teaching Gender and Culture as a compulsory subject on the new BA Social Work course has posed new challenges and raised issues for the educators. With passion and a firm belief that the students were getting something I hadn’t as a social work student, I stepped onto … Read more
Review by Sue Kennedy, Senior Lecturer in Social Work Safeguarding children and young people: A guide to integrated practice by Steven Walker and Christina Thurston brings together key concepts and issues in children’s services and provides the reader with an easy accessible read. It achieves what it sets out in that it offers a practice … Read more
When looking at articles published some time ago, it is interesting to see what has changed and what stays the same. In July 2001, Terry Hoon was looking at the impact of the release of the two young men who, as boys, had murdered Jamie Bolger. According to the Sunday Times Supplement on 23 July, … Read more
A mixture of news items, future events, sales pitches, comments and whimsies, including risk, childhood, the Child Support Agency, child protection, useful websites, staff needs v. children’s needs and patterns of schooling. Theme 1 Sometimes we have had a theme for the month in the Webmag. Sometimes regular contributors cover the same subject without any … Read more
I think it was Martin Broken Leg who popularised the native American saying that bringing up a child is too important a matter to be left to the parents; it is a matter for the whole tribe. When one hears it said for the first time, it can hit one as a blindingly obvious truth, … Read more
It is somewhat scary, not to say deeply worrying, that there are no tests for natural parent-hood and certainly scant preparation. If you want to foster or adopt there are hoops a-plenty to jump through. References, interviews, assessments and training are considered essential. But literally anyone can fall into parenthood. Indeed all the women I … Read more
Here we go again. The Home Secretary has sent his Minister, Gerry Sutcliffe MP, to America to see what the impact of Megan’s Law has been. The law related to circulating information about paedophiles to their neighbourhoods so that parents could be aware of the threat they might pose. Care will need to be taken, … Read more
Sign language use with babies and young children is an area of growing interest from families and those who work with pre-school youngsters. The use of signing is now believed to be beneficial to a whole range of children – pre-verbal hearing babies – children who are autistic, dyslexic, have specific speech and/or language difficulties … Read more
Race Equality Teaching Volume 24 has been published to cover Spring 2006. This journal, published by Trentham Books, used to be MCT Multicultural Teaching, which has a history of twenty years focusing on race and education. The issue has a Guest Editor, Jane Lane, who is a member of the Editorial Board. Jane’s theme is … Read more
In April 2001, Keith White wrote an early piece about Mill Grove, but his major contribution that month was titled Reflections on the History of Child Care in the United Kingdom and of the Current Context. It was the paper he had given at the Radisson Workshop run by the Social Education Trust. The Webmag … Read more