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.

Including the importance of fathers, Barnardo’s and residential care, carrots and sticks, Attach-a-Tag and children’s questions

Questions for child care

Including Residential Education / Care Day, South Africa, the age of criminal responsibility, CCCF and wellbeing, children’s books, secure accommodation …

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

Unmeasurable and immeasurably important

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

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

Ten years of ideas; why not send in yours?

The goodenoughcaring Journal no.6 is out.

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

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

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

Opening children’s eyes to ideas

The need to check for abusers

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

The same aims, but we’re looking to develop.

Including Sir Paul Ennals, Toni Julia, Stephen Shaw, Dr Pamela Ewan, King Mithridates VI, Philip Pullman, an anonymous psychiatrist and …

Including honours, child poverty, training for residential child care workers, Richard Balbernie and the National Children’s Bureau

We all need to get back to basics.

Including the report on abuse in Catholic care in Ireland and services for disabled children

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.

Including school leaving age, the public image of teenage boys, David Cameron, Baby P and the social work task, better …

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

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

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?

The founding of CCHN

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

Ideas for the next six months - and authors are wanted.

Foster care merits professional rewards.

How we differ from other animals