Petition to Re-establish NCERCC
Background information prepared to support the ICSE petition
Residential child care
Closing children’s homes
A research report which demonstrated children’s need for residential care
Residential Childcare – It Doesn’t Have to be For Ever
An important role as part of properly planned care programmes.
Approved Schools in The 1960 –Time for Radical Thinking
The fifth in a series on the history of the approved school service
Goodenoughcaring
Another issue is out; read all about it.
Isabel Menzies-Lyth
Some observations on her life and work, and the struggle with primitive anxieties
The Twelve Supports for Residential Care
It’s a difficult job and it needs the right back-up.
The Child, the Family and the Young Offender
A White Paper which caused debate about ways to deal with young offenders.
Children in trouble
A new rationale for treating young offenders
goodenoughcaring.com: A message from Charles Sharpe
The eighth issue of the journal is now out.
Restorative Practice in Children’s Homes
Improving relationships in residential care
‘The God Squad’ by Paddy Doyle
A classic – frightening and moving: the inside story about institutional life in Ireland