“Being Held in a Healthy Mind”
Security depends on mattering to someone, in the long term.
Residential Child Care
Residential child care includes regular columns from John Diamond of The Mulberry Bush School
The use of “Time Out”
Do you have experience of this problem? If so, please share it – soon.
“A Bad Home is Better than a Good Institution”
Is it? Time for some careful thinking
Residential Childcare – It Doesn’t Have to be For Ever
An important role as part of properly planned care programmes.
Goodenoughcaring
Another issue is out; read all about it.
Another Kind of Home: the Skinner Report :by Angus Skinner
A perceptive report on residential child care in Scotland
Activities for Children and Young People
Ideas for the summer
Remember?
Reviewing and re-interpreting the past can help one move forwards.
Throughcare and Aftercare
If we are to look at outcomes for children and young people who have experience of being looked after, we find that their later life chances are considerably reduced on any measure that you may care to name. The extent of the disadvantage experienced by young people leaving care was comprehensively detailed in the report … Read more
What is Social Pedagogy?
There’s no neat and simple answer, but here are the underpinning ideas.
What is Your Guiding Principle when you Seek to Help Children?
And how do you put it into practice?
SIRCC : Changeover to the New Centre
A broader remit and a smaller budget, but it’s still there.