Editorial

Over the last seven and a half years, Children Webmag has been looked after by a number of organisations and sponsors. Originally it was set up by the Institute for Childcare and Social Education. Then the Social Education Trust took over control and supported the Webmag financially. Caring for Children managed the Webmag for a … Read more

The Webmag has been going for over seven years now, and we must have published 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 are … Read more

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 Educative Communities, but it is rarely used … Read more

This message is mainly for readers in England, but its message applies to many other countries. Child care now has important international components, some relating to the problems which children and young people face, and some concerning ways of dealing with them. There are immigrant children – and in particular, unaccompanied minors – who require … Read more

A mixture of news items, events, comments and whimsies, including a Secretary of State for Families, offending, anti-social behaviour, Alliance for Child Centred Care,  CEIEC, the value of being there, parental alienation and teenage. A Secretary of State for Families We received a Press Release from NCH, which read as follows : In response to … Read more

The need for a long-term perspective in research about services for children One of the major defects of child care policy development is that those responsible – the politicians, civil servants and their advisers – all talk about evidence-based practice, but little consideration is given to the long-term outcomes of the measures taken to help … Read more

The Webmag has been going for over seven years now, and we must have published 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 are … Read more

A mixture of news items, events, comments and whimsies, including ROSLA, alcohol, ideas for Easter, cyber bullying, nationhood, Bob Jones, medicaments, school exclusion, products for children and mirrors. ROSLA again? At the Matrix Conference for youth workers, there was discussion about the rumour reported in the Guardian (5 March 2007) that the Government was intending … Read more

The Webmag has been going for seven years now, and we must have published 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 are using … Read more

A mixture of news items, events, comments and whimsies, including consultation, means and ends, giving clients money, bureaucracy, dancing in cinemas and cricket. The Views of Young People It is one of the strengths of the British approach these days that children and young people are consulted regularly as a matter of course about developments. … Read more

The recent UNICEF report came as a shock to many, while others said, “Told you so.” It was certainly a powerful message. Of all the twenty-one advanced countries studied, the United Kingdom scored worst for children. The report, Child Poverty in Perspective : An Overview of Child Wellbeing in Rich Countries, looked at six main … Read more

The importance of reading to children – for parents, as well as children One of the sad results of the introduction of television is that fewer children now have a bedtime story read to them by their parents. Keith White’s column this month focuses on the important books about children which he has come across … Read more