Editorial

Professor Rod Morgan has resigned from his position as Chair of the Youth Justice Board. This is really bad news. The role of Chair is difficult and demanding, as the Youth Justice field requires massive improvements. Rod Morgan is not only very well informed in this field, but is also a man of principles and … 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, future events, sales pitches, comments and whimsies, including consultation, sex offenders, ticks on holiday, ADSS & ADCS, policing schools, managing education, measles, music, autism and raising the school leaving age Making Consultation Real In his column this month Chris Durkin raises a very important question. How does one empower people … Read more

Last month we carried a summary of the Green Paper (click here to read it). It is a powerful document, which aims to overhaul the care system radically, to grasp a lot of nettles, and to put a lot of things right which previous legislation has failed to address. It aims not only to make … Read more

A mixture of news items, future events, sales pitches, comments and whimsies, including the Green Paper, smoking, poverty, together with bits and pieces such as beanstalks, bottled water, Cbeebies, binbags, bracelets, the Barbican’s birthday, Government consultation, advice for childminders, chips, cheers and children’s books. The Green Paper Without any planning, the Green Paper has become … Read more

October 2002 Sir Ronald Waterhouse wrote an interesting piece, looking back to the publication of his massive report, Lost in Care. It was 937 pages long with 72 recommendations, and we confess that we have not read it in its entirety yet. It had been published two and a half years earlier, and Sir Ronald … Read more

Happy New Year. The Webmag is seven years old, a good time to look back on the past and forwards to the future. Towards the end of the First World War, the Germans made one final push to create a rift between the British and French armies before the Americans could play a significant role. … Read more

July 2002 Asylum-seekers are now big news, but back in 2002, the problem of coping with unattached minors was not yet at its current level. In the July article Working with Refugee Children, Pirjo Vesala’s view of the services offered by Salaam, a private home in Kensington and Chelsea, is revealing in many ways. Certainly … Read more

Every generation thinks that the present is more wonderful, or more threatening, than at any time in the past, depending upon the level of their optimism and pessimism. Whether it is the millennium, the Black Death or the Cold War, there are always people around who think that the world is coming to an end, … Read more

A mixture of news items, future events, sales pitches, comments and whimsies, including the NCB, NCERCC, bullying, sitting, discrimination in transport, and ways to end conferences. NCB There was a time when people thought you were talking about the National Coal Board, but now the National Children’s Bureau has sole claim to the initials (if … Read more

April 2002 The Webmag focused on creative writing in this issue. Phil Carradice gave advice  about ways of encouraging children to write in order to express themselves and use writing as a way of framing things that matter to them. He mentioned objects and other people’s writing as stimuli, though personally Phil found the publisher’s … Read more

A mixture of news items, future events, sales pitches, comments and whimsies, including five campaigns, unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors, children’s origins and a bunch of quickies A Good Deal The Samaritans have launched a programme called DEAL (Developing Emotional Awareness and Learning) in schools, to improve the emotional health of young people across the UK and … Read more