Ofsted

News Views

Including training for social educators / social pedagogues / residential care staff, tombstoning, Ofsted, shaken babies, approved school scandals, therapeutic music, Siblings Together, educational apps, naming ceremonies, and ‘research’

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

Keeping Parliament Informed: The Children’s Workforce-Inspectors

Monday 19 January 2009: The Children’s Workforce – Inspectors, with speakers Dame Anne Owers (HM Chief Inspector of Prisons), Juliet Winstanley (Divisional Manager, Local Services Inspection, OFSTED) and Jean Humphries (Deputy Director, Children, OFSTED). The All Party Parliamentary Group for Children has held one meeting in January and chose the children’s workforce as their theme … Read more

News Views

A mixture of news items, events, comments and whimsies, including National Citizen’s Service, crime and the causes of crime, dealing with young offenders, labelling, computer software for teachers, compulsory cooking, the cycle of deprivation, computer-generated back pain, meningitis, and babies’ skin. National Citizens’ Service David Cameron has apparently been proposing that young people should do … Read more

News Views

A mixture of news items, events, comments and whimsies, including creature discomforts, childminding registration charges, listening, a contentious Bill, school size, data base size, and risk-taking. Creature Discomforts If there are Oscars to be awarded to charity advertising, one needs to go to Leonard Cheshire Disability for their partnership with Aardman animations in producing the … Read more