What it is, what it does - to children and their carers

Should settled children be uprooted to meet parents’ wishes?

How recognition moulds relationships and identities

Unmeasurable and immeasurably important

A neutral stance is impossible for a participant observer.

Including Haiti, professionalism, social pedagogy, well-being, Siblings Together and the Old Vic, grandparents’ rights, misbehaviour and classical music, reading, smacking …

Is there a future for a boy with a past?

Are the two approaches compatible?

A collection of reflections

Both in Haiti and the UK, young people need long-term economic solutions

Learning from losing power

Draft National Minimum Standards are unrealistic and do not reflect practice.

How the Admiral’s history tells the ever-changing story of child care

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

Department of Health advice for parents of young children about vaccination

Advice from the Department of Health

Ten years of ideas; why not send in yours?

What grandmother thought should be learnt by professionals

Children are still treated as pawns or possessions.

Intelligence is ultimately moral, practical and social, as well as academic.

Is there a future for a boy with a past?

A new project: watch this space to see how it emerges.

A time for parents of overweight children to reflect, and act

Answers from the Department of Health

What parents should ask before choosing an out-of-school club or play setting

The benefits of adoption compared with foster care and return home

The goodenoughcaring Journal no.6 is out.

Including hopes for 2010, poverty, AIEJI, vetting, obesity, access to child care records and Christmas snippets

Research into adoption, fostering and residential care with surprising conclusions

A simple gesture, well meant and well received, but what about the ramifications?

The fifth and final part of a personal account of becoming an adoptive parent

How one young person is finding his way out of the woods

An analysis of trials at Fullerton House School, part of the Hesley Group

Is there a future for a boy with a past?

The impact of long-term neglect is underestimated by social workers.

People looking after children in care need to be ahead of the game.

The ignored facts about young people who were locked up

An architect’s analysis of secure care

Including the Webmag’s tenth anniversary, institutional abuse of children in Ireland, Ofsted, child care ethics, the recession, social pedagogy, childminder …

Is there a future for a boy with a past?

The spontaneous little things make the difference, and they cannot be specified.

The lessons about what works have been ignored.

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

Ways to manage problem behaviour

Practical advice on residential child care

The Annual Conference of the Child Care History Network : 11 November 2009

The joy of arriving after a long hard journey

The fourth part of a personal account of becoming an adoptive parent

Is there a future for a boy with a past?

Success demands negotiation, feelings, relationships and a knowledge base.

The mutual benefits of offering help to people in other countries

The need to check for abusers

A Conference Report on EYPS, children’s books and disability, ADHD, children’s achievements, loving relationships, gifted children, and twins

Pass on the Copenhagen Declaration on Worldwide Social Pedagogy Day.

Including ASPECT and social pedagogy, NCMA, nursery provision in Scotland, Voice and mobile phones, and running away.