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Including social pedagogy, Children’s Trusts, children’s rights, child care pioneers, YoungMinds, the Children’s Charter, abusive teachers and Pound a Poem

Oct 2008- In This Issue

The theme for this month is foster care, and half a dozen articles approach the subject from a variety of angles. Foster care can obviously be a really powerful influence for good in helping damaged children put their lives together. There are also problems, such as the massive shortfall in foster carers at present. The … Read more

Guidance for Contributors

Have you ever thought of writing for the Webmag, but been worried about our expectations? Here are six questions, and our answers.What sort of articles does the Webmag want? The Webmag’s readership is mainly made up of people who work with children and young people, and the people who manage, train and inspect them. There … Read more

News Views

Including leaving care, records, creating villages out of gangs, goodenoughcaring, residential care in Australia, Interconnections, electrical danger zones, teenagers and good news about fees

News Views

A mixture of news items, events, comments and whimsies, including the BBC’s responses to complaints, KidStart, computers for children, teamwork, meningitis C, young prisoners and accidents.

Open EYE Petition

We have received this petition, and we draw it to readers’ attention so that they can contact Downing Street and sign up if they so choose. The email was received (through a third party) from Richard House ([email protected]), referring for more information to www.savechildhood.org . Background In spite of all the research and international evidence … Read more

Learning from Europe

Are you interested in learning about social pedagogy? Or about the way the Danes or Dutch do their child care? Or about the quality of services in Eastern Europe?At the conference held by the NCB on 18 January 2008, there was a mixture of speakers from other European countries and British academics who had undertaken … Read more

Heroes and Role Models

A hundred years ago, children in schools were taught about heroes and heroines. They were people to be admired. They had shown bravery and courage, or devotion and compassion. They were selfless, sometimes unassuming, sometimes talented and brilliant. They were often people who had made Britain great in the days of the Empire. Admiral Nelson, … Read more

News Views

A mixture of news items, events, comments and whimsies, including the Government’s new Children’s Plan, Dolly Parton in Rotherham, parents in prison, social exclusion, justice, Good Enough Caring, early education in New Zealand, grading in Scotland, grading in England, IASSW in South Africa and social pedagogy in Slovenia New Year Happy New Year! We hope … Read more