‘Residential Management as Treatment for Difficult Children’ by Donald W Winnicott and Clare Britton
Research lessons learnt from residential child care practice
Robert Shaw
A Historical Tragedy
Is social work trapped in problem-solving? Who will rescue it?
‘Children in Distress’ by Alec Clegg and Barbara Megson
A landmark text on the impact of education on children in need
‘Children who Wait’ by Jane Rowe and Lydia Lambert
A landmark study of children in long-term care
‘Wayward Youth’ by August Aichhorn
Multiple messages about the care of young offenders from the days of Sigmund Freud
‘Love is Not Enough’ by Bruno Bettelheim
Using the residential group to let children address their problems
Maintaining Values
The importance of training, management and leadership in setting and fostering values
‘Summerhill’ by A.S. Neill
The thinking behind an unusual, innovative and lastingly influential institution
‘Spare the Child’ by David Wills
The struggle to change a traditional approved school to offer relationship-based treatment
‘Adult Status of Children with Contrasting Early Experience’ by Harold M. Skeels
Research showing how children respond to care, and that good care saves money
‘Some Theoretical Observations on Group Care’ by Martin Wolins
A seminal text which makes sense of other theoretical and practice-based work
‘A Place Called Hope’ by Tom O’Neill
Personal experiences of the care system shaped professional thinking.