Published by The International Centre for Therapeutic Care
The theme of this issue is Books for Children and Families. Which books do children like? Which did adults like as children? Which changed their lives? In addition to an Editorial and articles on children’s reading, a total of thirteen contributors have reviewed or mentioned over 30 books for children and families below. If your … Read more
Please Donate. Children Webmag is registered as an educational charity, and it relies heavily on voluntary effort, working with a shoe-string budget. We do this because we think that high standards of child care are important, and we want to share ideas about good practice as widely and freely as possible. Nonetheless, there are unavoidable … Read more
Opening children’s eyes to ideas
Including primary schooling and subsidiarity, visibility at night, family rehabilitation, Nannyshare, well-being, Pembroke House, and toddlers’ eating habits
We have now published nearly thirty Key Texts. If you are new to this series, it consists of digests of important books, chapters of books or monographs which have introduced new ideas in child care or influenced the thinking of child care workers. Too often politicians, civil servants, managers and child care professionals devise ‘new’ … Read more
October’s Webmag is full of personal stories. Keith White‘s contribution shows that it can take a lifetime to see the impact of good social work. The mother‘s account of adopting has passed the bureaucratic hurdles and she takes her little girl home. There is another agonising – and gripping – chapter in A.J. Stone‘s account … Read more
The need to check for abusers
Including ASPECT and social pedagogy, NCMA, nursery provision in Scotland, Voice and mobile phones, and running away.
Theme of the Month : Social Pedagogy The big theme for this issue is Social Pedagogy, and in addition to the Editorial, we have a dozen or so articles and a book review on the theme. Subjects include the current state of Government policy by John Chowcat, introducing social pedagogy to the UK by Abby … Read more
Clearly we would not have selected social pedagogy as the theme for this issue if we did not consider its introduction into the United Kingdom as an important step forwards in child care services. Equally clearly, there is considerable debate about the value of social pedagogy, its applicability to the UK, and the extent of … Read more
Including social pedagogy, respite care and work with children – the basic model
There was no planned theme for this month, but in many of the articles there is a common strand – the desire for understanding of the author’s predicament, and perhaps also for support. The third part of the mother‘s story about adoption speaks movingly of a phase when things got difficult. We have the first … Read more