Published by The International Centre for Therapeutic Care
Another month with a wide variety of subject matter, with some of the articles touching on safeguarding children, some on transition, and some looking back to the development of child care services around the 1940s. The Editorial calls for solidarity in the face of cuts, and urges you to support a professional association- the Social … Read more
The professions need your support to face the cuts.
Including the lessons of Haute de la Garenne, an honour for day nurseries, Key Texts, night lights and melatonin, social pedagogy and the SPDN, social pedagogy in Slovenia, breast-feeding, the Big Society and Montessori, ‘research’ surveys, TV viewing patterns, poverty, and conferences on children and mental health and young people and faith
Happy New Year, and welcome to our first issue of 2011. As is fitting for the festive season, we have quite a mixed diet on the plate this month. A.J. Stone’s story about a boy in care – Aaron, Beyond Caring, rolls forward; it still has a few months to go, and if you are … Read more
And if you have something to say, get in touch.
Including locking children up, justice, leaving care, smells, the X Factor, toddlers’ tantrums, CORE, the Mouse Club, the Pushmepullyou, Youth & Policy and toothbrushes
The theme this month is Learning and Development, and in addition to the Editorial we have seven other articles looking at aspects of learning, teaching methods, qualification systems and so on. Ann White on inter-agency child safeguarding training; Robert Shaw on how child care workers learn and develop their practice; Valerie Jackson outlining the current … Read more
Including truancy, vetting and barring, the Big Society, teamwork in child protection, postcode lotteries, telling the truth and Every Child (still) Matters
The Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs
The theme for this month is reading – for children and about child care – and we have some interesting angles on the subject. Marilyn Brocklehurst on ways of encouraging children to read. Simon Machin has been studying ripping yarns for boys, and looks at their historical and social context – and (in view of … Read more
Don’t blame the cuts.
Including child poverty, the lessons from Baby Peter, foster care recruitment, family eating habits, fitness, fun and football, archiving theses, disciplining children, ‘research’, changing the clocks, the NCBC and the NCB.