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Editor The Webmag has been going for nearly eight years now, and we must have published well over a thousand articles. Who refers to the musty piles of back numbers of hard copy magazines? The Webmag articles are all there at the touch of the Back Issues button. Modern technology makes them available. But unless you … Read more
A mixture of news items, events, comments and whimsies, including the World Scout Jamboree, the costs of offending and disability, Postman Pat and letter-writing, children and the arts, gyms for kids, malaria, depression, knife-proof clothing for children and common sense Jamboree! We should not let this issue pass without noting the 21st World Scout Jamboree … Read more
Young people and youth work agencies were on Fleet Street this week, with a 7-foot high jar of ‘Pickled Hoodies’ with the message “Labels R4 Jars – not young people”. The press launch for this research and campaign held at St Brides Church on Fleet Street, a church which has a long and deep relationship … Read more
A conference highlight by Caroline Richardson and Heather Gray In May 2007, Jemma, Natalie, Barry and Zoe (four young people from residential units in the Renfrewshire area) came together with Caroline Richardson (their Who Cares? Scotland worker) and Naomi Breeze (Breeze Productions) to develop their presentation for the Annual Conference of the Scottish Institute for … Read more
The 7th Annual Conference of the Scottish Institute of Residential Child Care : 6 – 7 June 2007 Once more, our annual conference exceeded all our expectations. On what were possibly two of the sunniest days of the year and with a record-breaking 350-plus speakers and delegates from over fifty agencies and representing ten different … Read more
Apparently the child care workforce is becoming steadily more female. There always has been an imbalance, with more women in caring roles than men, and there have been moves in the past to try to recruit more men, but the current trend is presumably the result of thousands of decisions by men and women about … Read more
The Webmag has been going for seven and a half years now, and we must have published well over a thousand articles. Who refers to the musty piles of back numbers of hard copy magazines? The Webmag articles are all there at the touch of the Back Issues button. Modern technology makes them available. But … Read more
A mixture of news items, events, comments and whimsies, including pupil premiums, beating children, atonement for clerical child abuse, Harry Potter, nimbyism, unintended consequences, the Children in Care Bill and nursery rhymes. The Child Poverty Action Group has welcomed a LibDem proposal that schools should be paid a pupil premium to take account of their … Read more
In mid-July a group of people met at the National Centre for Excellence in Residential Child Care with a view to setting up FICE-England again, as a way of linking with people working with children and young people in other countries. If you would like to take part, email us Why get involved in international … Read more
Where is Childhood going? “I’d like to network with people from other services and professions. We seem to speak different languages sometimes, but we’ve got to work together.” “There is such a lot going on. It’s really exciting, but it is hard to keep up with it. I’d like somewhere to talk to colleagues, to … Read more
This is the second of a two-part story. To read the first episode, click here. It was a Friday afternoon weeks later when I got a call from the Reception Desk. Most of my colleagues had already gone, making sure that they had visits to make which would put them on the right side of … Read more
This is the second of a two-part story. To read the first episode, click here. It was a Friday afternoon weeks later when I got a call from the Reception Desk. Most of my colleagues had already gone, making sure that they had visits to make which would put them on the right side of … Read more