Should settled children be uprooted to meet parents’ wishes?

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

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

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

A landmark study of children in long-term care

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

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

The development of training and the introduction of family group conferences

Personal experiences of the care system shaped professional thinking.

A study of what makes for success in foster care

Same scene, but Sally’s View

An outstanding campaigner for many causes

An early piece of comparative research, looking at added value

The Sycamore Services system for fostering children in residential care

Passing on the problems

Foster care merits professional rewards.

Listening is the start to overcoming disadvantage.

A job for professionals - and there are vacancies.

The danger of dogma in meeting individual needs

Healing processes can help people to adjust.

And the impact on the development of children’s brains

Making sense of chaos

The damage of failing to reframe

Children, Families and Care: Reflections on the First Sixty Years of FICE

The concept of pedagogy has a long history, but it is now finding its time.

A journey of one thousand steps – an Appletree Success Story

Evaluating how things have changed over half a century