A Vision for Residential Care
The Residential Forum has laid out guidelines for a positive future.
Residential care
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
Children Webmag’s Campaigns – Past and Future
The ideas that motivate the Webmag
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
“Do Animals go to Heaven?”
You never know what the really significant events in a child’s life are likely to be, let alone when they are going to happen. But when they do occur there is always the challenge of the unpredictable questions that these events provoke. With this in mind let me try to describe a sequence of events … Read more
London’s Forgotten Children : Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital by Gillian Pugh
In August 2004 we reviewed Dame Gillian Wagner’s excellent biography of Thomas Coram, Gent. This book also focuses on Thomas Coram in the early chapters but then goes on to trace the history of the Foundling Hospital which he established and its evolution into the Coram Family today. It is a fascinating story.We are appalled … Read more
Youth Aging out of Care: An Overview
Technological and medical advances have done little to decrease the numbers of children at risk in the developing world. Instead, with the increased sophistication of reporting systems, there seem to be increasing numbers of children and adolescents whose development is seen as compromised, whether because of overt abuse, neglect or an insidious pattern of parenting … Read more
The Search for Therapeutic Residential Care
I recently spent some time in Australia and contributed to three child care conferences with a particular focus on residential care. It was striking to discover that many agencies wanted to explore what constituted ‘therapeutic’ residential care. This was a particular focus for the people in Victoria State (which includes Melbourne). There the Government has … Read more
FICE in Israel : A Unique Experience
We were in the City Hall in Jerusalem, and the Mayor was due to host the mayors of fifty cities from around the world that evening. “Who is Jerusalem twinned with?” I asked. “Jerusalem is unique”, our host replied. “It has no twin cities. But it does have partnerships, which are much the same”, she … Read more