Editorial

News Views – April 2008

including the Children’s Charter, the size of residential establishments, stress, missing children, testing situations, class sizes, spoiling children, exams, the Journal of Children’s Services and Easter

100 Next Month

The April issue of Children Webmag will be number 100. We have already received some congratulations on our one hundredth birthday, but, being a monthly magazine, we are not actually a hundred years old. The world wide web was not around in 1908. We are nonetheless pleased – and proud – that we are still … Read more

Editorial : Missing Children

This is a difficult subject to get one’s head round. In the first place, if a child truly goes missing, there is the awful period of apprehension and fear felt by the family while the searching goes on, and then there is the grief of loss if a body is found, or the lingering uncertainty … Read more

Refounding FICE-England

In last month’s issue we published information about FICE – the Federation Internationale des Communautes Educatives. It’s quite a mouthful , but put simply it is probably the biggest international professional association in the world for people working with children and young people. It has National Sections in about thirty countries, but not in England. … Read more

News Views

A mixture of news items, events, comments and whimsies, including social pedagogy, trust in MPs, baby massage, barefoot walking, natal hypnotherapy, recruiting head teachers, Sir Al and the Mosquito Social Pedagogy on Line We’d like to bring to your attention a new website dedicated to sharing ideas about social pedagogy. It has been sponsored by … Read more

Ever thought of going abroad – to a Conference?

Ever thought of going Abroad – to a Conference? If you have never been to an international conference, now is a good time to think about it, as there are several big conferences – or congresses – being held, and they all have the prospect of being interesting events. Besides the interest of going to … Read more

Words, Ideas and Realities

Most of the time we have no great difficulty understanding each other, but once in a while we face a new concept and we have a real struggle. They had this problem back in the seventeenth century when travellers brought the first pineapples to England. They could say what they look like. But how could … Read more

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

Federation Internationale des Communautes Educatives (FICE)

Setting up FICE-England : Questions and Answers What is FICE? FICE is the largest international professional association for people working with children and young people. What does FICE stand for? People have a number of ways of pronouncing the title, but the usual one is fee-say. The literal English translation is the International Federation of … Read more