Every Child Matters : A Personal Reflection
Implications for practice and training
Residential Child Care
Residential child care includes regular columns from John Diamond of The Mulberry Bush School
Recognising your Gifts
Learning about oneself through the eyes of others
Residential Education and Care in Israel
The Application of the Youth Aliyah Model on a Nationwide Scale.
Work Experience at Fullerton House School
The challenge of learning to relate to children with autism
Introducing Social Pedagogy into Residential Child Care in England
A description of an important project with pointers for the future
What would you have said?
On Wednesday 13 February 2008 I found myself standing beside a coffin in a parish church in a northern English city in the presence of four hundred or so people and looking into the face of a diminutive girl in the front row. Her mother had died of throat cancer, and she was sitting between … Read more
In Care : Joy : 2
This is the second of a two-part account of Joy’s story; to read the first part, about how her family broke up, click here. Dad One of the staff told me that Dad was selling the house and took me to see if there was anything I wanted – toys, or clothes, or anything. I … Read more
The Institute for the History and Work of Therapeutic Environments: What is possible, and what makes it possible?
The Planned Environment Therapy Trust In 1989 the Planned Environment Therapy Trust set up an Archive and Study Centre in the rural village of Toddington, Gloucestershire, “to gather, care for, and make available in a professional and appropriate way archive, library, audio-visual and other materials related to planned environment therapy, therapeutic community, milieu therapy, and … Read more
Community Involvement
The most outstanding services for young children and families are the ones where parents are consulted, included and welcomed: consulted on what is needed in their community, included in decision-making processes, welcomed as equal partners at every stage. Parents know their own children and community better than the professionals who are employed to work with … Read more
New Voice for Education and Child Care
The statement below was received from the Professional Association of Teachers, embargoed until 28 February 2008, when they launched their new brand image. From 28 February 2008 there will be a new voice for professionals working in education and childcare across the UK. On that day, the Professional Association of Teachers (PAT) – and its … Read more
We need a full National Debate on Scottish Nursery Provision
Everyone agrees that our children deserve the best possible start in life, and that our nursery provision should reflect the critical importance of the nursery years in shaping young lives. Yet it’s a sad fact that in today’s Scotland the quality of provision you can expect depends to a very great extent on where you … Read more
“Mill Grove Saved my Family”
An ordinary afternoon It was an ordinary Thursday afternoon and I had driven to East Ham as usual to collect one of the two families that spend that evening with us each week. I had given my trademark knock at the door of their terraced house and the youngsters were getting ready: collecting what they … Read more