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The briefing below was prepared for the media by the coalition to End Child Poverty (ECP) prior to the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR). It has been attached here in full as it lays out the arguments and facts clearly and succinctly. It was prepared by Alicia Jones, Media Officer, [email protected]. More information can be obtained … Read more
Social pedagogy continues to be a subject of current importance as more parts of the UK are experimenting with it. It is therefore the subject of some of our articles this month. Nicola Boyce has provided a description of the progress of the Essex scheme. While acknowledging some difficulties, the overall success of the scheme … Read more
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Including the impact of cuts, music teaching in London, the culling of the quangos, the soul of social work, joining the dance to listen to children in Scotland, the Lord High Almoner, and a simian stocking-filler.
SIRCC are calling for papers for their 2011 conference
Subjects With a few rare exceptions the subject matter of contributions needs to be related in some way to children, young people, their families or communities, or the services which they receive. We try to treat our remit broadly, so, for example, we would include an article about young adults in transition from care, but … Read more
As an educational charity, the aim of Children Webmag is to share thinking about good practice in work with children, young people and their families as widely as possible. Children Webmag has to rely on its readers to spread the word. There is already a substantial subscriber list, but there are still lots of people … Read more
If you like the variety of articles we publish, you will enjoy this issue. We start with an Editorial which supports the stance taken by Barnardo’s on the excessive time taken in the Courts to obtain Care Orders, and we add some arguments of our own about the Costs of Taking Children into Care. We … Read more
It is not only the children who pay the price
Conferences It’s the conference season, and here are three or four promising events which we recommend to you. From Coalface to Facebook An intriguing title for the Child Care History Network’s Conference on the use of new social media and technology to remember child care experiences. How will the history of child care be recorded … Read more
Residential child care features in nearly all of the contributions this month, but in quite a variety of different ways. Vic Citarella calls on residential child care workers to take control of their own profession by becoming members of the Institute of Child Care and Social Education (ICSE), set up to establish high standards of … Read more
If the values aren’t right, the processes won’t work.