A Professional Job?
An opportunity for residential child care workers to shape their profession
Residential child care
To Infinity and Beyond
How training can develop careers and education can open the eyes
‘The Other 23 Hours’ by Albert Trieschman, James Whittaker and Larry Brendtro
Practical advice on residential child care
Introducing Social Pedagogy
Adapting the UK to SP and SP to the UK
What’s So New about Social Pedagogy?
It’s been around for years at Mill Grove.
‘The Loveliest Girl in the World’ by Miina Savolainen
How photography can empower children in residential care
Residential Child Care, the Under-valued, Unacknowledged and Untrained Profession
A Personal Statement I believe that a significant number of troubled children and young people are best helped by the provision of residential child care. Amongst these I would include those who, though they may for the time being not be able to live with their families, nonetheless have such a strong feeling of belonging … Read more
Editorial : A Prejudice that Needs to be Shifted
Why are so many field social workers opposed to residential child care?
Twenty Years On
FICE-Hungary : what a professional association can achieve
‘Spare the Child’ by David Wills
The struggle to change a traditional approved school to offer relationship-based treatment
News Views
Including the recession, generations, social workers’ attitudes to residential child care, working methods, Catholic adoption societies, bouncers and voluntary work
Time for the Phoenix
Residential child care workers need to make their voice heard again.