A Vision for Residential Care
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 by Richard Clough OBEReaders of this article will have become accustomed over the decades to hearing and reading of the doubts about the benefits of residential care for children. Whilst there can never be any doubt that residential child care services have failed some young people, there remains a significant proportion whose lives have improved because of a residential intervention.
With this in mind it was a pleasure to be able to administer an event organised by the Residential Forum which brought together representatives from the voluntary, private and statutory sectors and included government officials practitioners, managers, owners, providers, policy and academics from throughout the United Kingdom over a 24-hour period to discuss the theme Modernising Residential Care for Children and Young People. Unfortunately our best efforts to involve service users proved unsuccessful.
We set ourselves the task of setting a vision for children
Tags: Residential care, Residential Forum, Standard-setting
April 7th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
Dear David,
Emanuel gave the information about this childrenwebmag to me. I’m very interested to read this. Perhaps we can add some informations about German- an IGfH-discussions if we manage the translations.
Very interesting!
Best wishes from Berlin!
Norbert