News Views

Including a new residential care blog site, social work visits, the aftermath of crime, teddy bears and an anonymous staffing agency

In This Issue: February 2010

The main theme this month is training, though the issue also has a strong international flavour, and articles about social pedagogy. Mervi Nyman explains the excellent training system in Finland. Jennifer Lehmann raises training issues in Australia, including the impact of IT. Angie Bartoli weighs up the impact of the Task Force’s recommendations on social … Read more

News Views

Including Haiti, professionalism, social pedagogy, well-being, Siblings Together and the Old Vic, grandparents’ rights, misbehaviour and classical music, reading, smacking and optimism, new technology and eremitism, child safety, children’s best interests, term-time and holidays, advice for parents, Make-A-Wish, and Slovenia

In This Issue: January 2010

The main theme this month is Young Vision 2020, in which we are publishing the views of children and young people. After a brief Introduction, we have divided up the responses by country – Romania, Australia, the United States and the UK. We’re still looking for more. We have quite a variety of material in … Read more

News Views

Including hopes for 2010, poverty, AIEJI, vetting, obesity, access to child care records and Christmas snippets

In This Issue: December 2009

We have carried on last month’s theme of Books for Children and Families, and in this issue there are articles by Valerie Jackson and Lynn Daley about story-telling as well as seven more Book Reviews, two of which have been written by their target readers, Eleanor Irvine and Liam John Ryan from Silcoates Junior School. … Read more

News Views

Including the Webmag’s tenth anniversary, institutional abuse of children in Ireland, Ofsted, child care ethics, the recession, social pedagogy, childminder numbers, concurrent adoptions and Christmas wishes