Wise Up On the World Wide Web

by Robert Fitzgerald

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

‘Children Referred to Closed Units’ by Pat Cawson and Mary Martell

Digest by Robert Shaw

The ignored facts about young people who were locked up

‘The Development of Secure Units in Child Care’ by G J Blumenthal

Digest by Robert Shaw

An architect’s analysis of secure care

News Views

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

In This Issue: November 2009

Young Vision 2020

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

The Webmag’s a Charity.

Why the Current Court Process would Benefit from Reform to Reduce the Impact and Stress on Children of Separated Couples

by Simon Bethel

Beyond Caring : Chapter 4

by A.J. Stone

Is there a future for a boy with a past?

“Unremembered Acts of Kindness and of Love”

by Dr Keith J. White

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

Vetting : From a Different Point of View

by Robert Shaw

The lessons about what works have been ignored.

International Day of Social Educators 2009. What Happened?

by Benny Andersen

Editorial: Storytelling

Opening children’s eyes to ideas

News Views

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

Key Texts: Where Next?

‘Controls from Within’ by Fritz Redl and David Wineman

Digest by Robert Shaw

Ways to manage problem behaviour

‘The Other 23 Hours’ by Albert Trieschman, James Whittaker and Larry Brendtro

Digest by Robert Shaw

Practical advice on residential child care

Conference: The Place of Ethics in the History of Child Care

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

Understanding Residential Child Care: Valuing the Effect and Effectiveness of Daily Living

In This Issue: October 2009

“You’ll Never Believe it!”

by Dr Keith J. White

The joy of arriving after a long hard journey

Adoption - A Mother’s Story : Part 4

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

Beyond Caring: Chapter 3

by A.J. Stone

Is there a future for a boy with a past?

A Carer

by Jen Kilyon

Realities, not labels

The Art and Science of Child Protection

by Chris Durkin

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

Namibia Journey

by Isla Mitchell

The mutual benefits of offering help to people in other countries

Editorial : To Vet or Not to Vet?

The need to check for abusers

New Work on the Sociology of Childhood

by the BSA Childhood Study Group

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

Telling the World about Social Pedagogy

by Benny Andersen, President of AIEJI

Pass on the Copenhagen Declaration on Worldwide Social Pedagogy Day.

News Views

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

‘Young Children in Brief Separation’ by James and Joyce Robertson

Digest by Robert Shaw

Lessons about what does - and does not - damage children

‘Residential Management as Treatment for Difficult Children’ by Donald W Winnicott and Clare Britton

Digest by Robert Shaw

Research lessons learnt from residential child care practice

In This Issue: September 2009

Editorial: Social Pedagogy- Panacea, Practical Programme or Professional Trompe l’Oeil?

Social Pedagogy and Government Policy in England

by John Chowcat

How policy and pilots are proceeding

Introducing Social Pedagogy

by Abby Ladbrooke

Adapting the UK to SP and SP to the UK

The Social Pedagogy Pilot Programme 2008 - 2011 Progress to Date

by Claire Cameron

Some Basic Concepts 1: The 3 Ps

by Gabriel Eichsteller

The professional, personal, and private pedagogue

Some Basic Concepts 2: The Common Third

by Gabriel Eichsteller

How activities establish the right values and offer a means of relating

Some Basic Concepts 3: Zone of Proximal Development

by Gabriel Eichsteller

How children can be helped to learn through social pedagogy

Some Basic Concepts 4: The Learning Zone Model

by Gabriel Eichsteller

Getting the balance right in between panic and stagnation

Towards a Pedagogic Conceptualisation of Risk

by Gabriel Eichsteller and Sylvia Holthoff

How children need to take risks to be safe

Out-of-Home Care: Bringing up Children in a Professional Way

by Bettina Terp

Looking on the social pedagogy profession from a Viennese point of view

Social Pedagogy and UK Traditions of Social Work

by Gabriel Eichsteller

Key aspects of social pedagogy practice

Social Pedagogy: the Impact of Rousseau

by Valerie Jackson

How Rousseau, Plowden et al. influenced the teaching milieu and methods

What’s So New about Social Pedagogy?

by Dr Keith J. White

It’s been around for years at Mill Grove.

Social Pedagogy Implementation Network

ThemPra

A company set up to develop social pedagogy in the UK

A Historical Tragedy

by Robert Shaw

Is social work trapped in problem-solving? Who will rescue it?

Beyond Caring: Chapter 2

by A.J. Stone

Is there a future for a boy with a past?

‘Children in Distress’ by Alec Clegg and Barbara Megson

Digest by Robert Shaw

A landmark text on the impact of education on children in need

‘Children who Wait’ by Jane Rowe and Lydia Lambert

Digest by Robert Shaw

A landmark study of children in long-term care

News Views

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

The Child Care History Network AGM and Autumn Conference

The Place of Ethics in the History of Child Care

In This Issue: August 2009

Editorial: We’re a Charity Now

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

Adoption - A Mother’s Story : Part 3

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

Beyond Caring : Chapter 1

by A.J. Stone

Is there a future for a boy with a past?

A Tear of Reflection…

by Claudia Megele

The need for the wider community to understand social work

“Time is a Great Healer”

by Dr Keith J. White

Life offers opportunities offered to re-interpret earlier experiences.

Of Dissertations and Disclosures

by Chris Durkin

Letting people express themselves in their own time and in their own ways

Who Cares?

by Valerie Jackson

Young or old, what sort of service can you realistically expect?

‘Wayward Youth’ by August Aichhorn

Digest by Robert Shaw

Multiple messages about the care of young offenders from the days of Sigmund Freud

‘Love is Not Enough’ by Bruno Bettelheim

Digest by Robert Shaw

Using the residential group to let children address their problems

Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood

by David Lane

If you’ve not been, make the time to go.

Social Pedagogy - in the UK, and in Slovenia

Announcing next month’s theme, and plugging Social Na Pedagogika

News Views

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

In This Issue: July 2009

Residential Child Care, the Under-valued, Unacknowledged and Untrained Profession

by Charles Sharpe

Editorial : A Prejudice that Needs to be Shifted

Why are so many field social workers opposed to residential child care?