How the participation of the trainer in the practice has multiple spin-offs

Professionalism, practice placements and a passion to be outstanding

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.

Why story-telling is so important - and ten tips for storytellers

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

Another collection of young people’s views

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?

Individual views and different opinions, but mainly hopeful for the future

WYV07

Hopes and dreams, realism and fears

An end to war and a hope for more kindness

Rubbish and big cars

A strong plea for the environment - and chocolate

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

Contributions from two groups of students

Despite the risks of collapse, war and greed, the Earth has a great future.

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 …

Calling Young People. What Do You Think? We want to know.

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