It is not only the children who pay the price

If the values aren’t right, the processes won’t work.

The long-term view

How can we use resources more effectively?

NCERCC has given invaluable support to residential care but is under threat.

Questions for child care

Including a new residential care blog site, social work visits, the aftermath of crime, teddy bears and an anonymous staffing …

Many people play roles in crises, some close, some distant, some culpable, some unaware.

Opening children’s eyes to ideas

Including primary schooling and subsidiarity, visibility at night, family rehabilitation, Nannyshare, well-being, Pembroke House, and toddlers’ eating habits

The need to check for abusers

Including social pedagogy, respite care and work with children – the basic model

We all need to get back to basics.

Including the recession, generations, social workers’ attitudes to residential child care, working methods, Catholic adoption societies, bouncers and voluntary work

Each one is an individual, and has something to offer.

Research shows that they’re not as good as nurseries.

The Government wants the views of professionals.

Including young fathers, first-born children, substance abuse and new mores, primary education, gangs, social workers, bureaucracy and UNISON, residential care …

The importance of a long-term holistic approach

Calling on children and young people to join the campaign

Including MMR and the media, well-being, eating for two, coughs and sneezes, emergency care, nanny-sharing, expeditions, whistle-blowing and communication

A major Congress for anyone interested in social pedagogy / social education

Looking for articles, emails and blogs - facts and ideas

Both training and education are vital and need to be protected.

We shall be considering health in February, Parents’ Views in March and Disability in April. Why not write for us?

Including missing children, maths teaching and motivation, abuse at Caldicott School, play, two re-organisations - social services and primary schooling …

A mixture of news items, events, comments and whimsies, including men in childcare, confidentiality, Andrew Rowe, Barack Obama, bullying, Court …

The founding of CCHN

A new Section of the Webmag, covering the classic texts of the past

The Sycamore Services system for fostering children in residential care

Including social pedagogy, Children’s Trusts, children’s rights, child care pioneers, YoungMinds, the Children’s Charter, abusive teachers and Pound a Poem

Foster care merits professional rewards.

How ideas interplay and help thinking to develop new angles on problems

Including leaving care, records, creating villages out of gangs, goodenoughcaring, residential care in Australia, Interconnections, electrical danger zones, teenagers and …

A mixture of news items, events, comments and whimsies, including the BBC’s responses to complaints, KidStart, computers for children, teamwork, …

The roles of grandparents – and others – are changing.