Published by The International Centre for Therapeutic Care
Editor If you work with children and young people, do you consider yourself to be professional? If so, what profession? Do you consider that your profession is properly valued and recognised by society? If not, what should you do about it?This issue contains details of a couple of new ideas, and you have the chance to … Read more
One of the characteristics of a grounded profession is its interest in the origins of the profession, how it has grown, the problems it has addressed, the mistakes it has made, and the solutions it has found. An awareness and understanding of its past lays the foundation for continuing development and growth, and helps it … Read more
A mixture of news items, events, comments and whimsies, including creature discomforts, childminding registration charges, listening, a contentious Bill, school size, data base size, and risk-taking. Creature Discomforts If there are Oscars to be awarded to charity advertising, one needs to go to Leonard Cheshire Disability for their partnership with Aardman animations in producing the … Read more
The first part of this story was in last month’s Webmag. If you want to read it first, click here. I soon found a crowd to hang around with. They showed me how to lift things. Food from market stalls, the odd purse or wallet. And of course we did begging. I looked so small … Read more
Date: 21 November 2007 Time: 9.30 to 12.30 Venue: The Knowledge Centre, Park Campus, University of Northampton. Cost: £15 per person booked in advance by emailing [email protected] or calling 01733 844803 and leaving a voicemail message Please note: The maximum number of delegates is 30. Booking is essential as we cannot guarantee a place on … Read more
A mixture of news items, events, comments and whimsies, including Balls and education, exclusion and education, crime and the media, Philippa Russell and disabled children, global fears and apophthegms. Balls at Bournemouth At the Bournemouth Annual Social Services Conference, Ed Balls spoke of the need for collaboration between central and local Government. He re-iterated the … Read more
SIRCC – the Scottish Institute in Residential Child Care – is running two conferences. ***** The first is taking a look at recent research in the field of residential child care under the title In the Know. There is not much time to book, as it will take place on 12 November 2007. Research Day … Read more
I am watching the fly crawling up the wall. Why doesn’t it fall off? I seem to remember a teacher once tried to explain how they hold on, even on to windows and ceilings. Maybe if I could do that I would have got away from the filth that night and never have ended up … Read more
“No man is an Island”, said John Donne. It is one of those statements which looks obvious once it is said. Man is a social animal, brought up in families, living in neighbourhoods and wider communities, working in teams of varying sizes, forming partnerships, agreeing complex laws and regulations and codes of conduct about acceptable … Read more
Date: 21 November 2007 Time: 9.30 to 12.30 Venue: The Knowledge Centre, Park Campus, University of Northampton. Cost: £15 per person booked in advance by emailing [email protected] or calling 01733 844803 and leaving a voicemail message Please note: The maximum number of delegates is 30. Booking is essential as we cannot guarantee a place on … Read more
There are some phrases which we find incredibly irritating. We class “blue skies thinking” and “thinking out of the box” among them. They are the sort of jargon used in management-speak, to encourage people to try ideas which they might not like. On the other hand, how do we get people to think laterally or … Read more
This Manifesto was developed by six Scottish organisations with expertise in looked after children and young people: Aberlour Child Care Trust, British Association of Adoption and Fostering, Fostering Network, Scottish institute for Residential Child Care, Scottish Throughcare and Aftercare Forum, Who Cares? Scotland. We think that the consortium have done a really good piece of … Read more