The Fair Start Global Project
by Niels Peter Rygaard
A free e-learning and organizational development program for orphanages and foster families in quality care-giving in 29 languages
A Safe Place for Rufus By Jill Seeney
Book Review by Valerie Jackson
Helping children to begin to trust
News Views
Including language impairment, epilepsy, childminding, fostering and adoption, rating books, the Golden Jubilee, running away, safeguarding, ‘research’ and Mittel Appenzell.
Parenting a Child with Dyslexia:by Chris Stanway and Lorna Miles
Book Review by Valerie Jackson
Sharing the problems: a book based on experience.
Kinship care and well-being
by Meredith Kiraly
Children and young people speak out about contact with their families
News Views
Including riots, long summer holidays, residential child care statistics, street work, Wellesley Nautical School, Gerd Schemenau, laughter, remembering residential care, …
Closing children’s homes
Digest by Robert Shaw
A research report which demonstrated children’s need for residential care
“We have no choice” - the challenge of kinship care
by Meredith Kiraly
Stability and continuity of care for the children, but sometimes there’s a price to pay
Attachment and Resilience in Residential Care: A Historical Perspective
by by Robert Shaw
Long-term relationships are important for a successful childhood, whatever the setting.
The Clyde Report on Homeless Children:Chaired by James Clyde
Digest by Robert Shaw
A practical review with clear conclusions which shaped Scotland’s child care services.
Fostering Success
by Marion Thorpe
Change needed in the organisation, support and reward of foster care ?
Moving My Life- Again
by a former foster child
Every change of foster placement carries its losses, hopes and fears, which can last a lifetime.
‘The Second Curtis Report’ Chaired by Dame Myra Curtis
Digest by Robert Shaw
An outstanding report which had a massive impact at a critical point
‘The Monckton Report’ by Sir William Monckton
Digest by Robert Shaw
A report which highlighted foster care failures and the need for change
Beyond Caring: Chapter 17
Is there a future for a boy with a past?
‘Leaving Care’ by Mike Stein and Kate Carey
Digest by Robert Shaw
Indicators for success- and failure- in aftercare
Family Group Homes
by David Lane
An important piece of child care history, but inadequately documented and worth reconsidering
‘Foster Home Breakdown’ by David Berridge and Hedy Cleaver
Digest by Robert Shaw
A detailed study providing guidance to social workers on what works
‘Child Care Now: A Survey of Placement Patterns’ by Jane Rowe, Marion Hundleby and Louise Garnett
Digest by Robert Shaw
Social workers’ views as to what works
Foster Care - When do the Child’s Rights Begin?
by James Moran
Should settled children be uprooted to meet parents’ wishes?
Fostering a Fostering Disaster
by Marion Thorpe
Draft National Minimum Standards are unrealistic and do not reflect practice.
Wise Up On the World Wide Web
by Robert Fitzgerald
People looking after children in care need to be ahead of the game.
Adoption - A Mother’s Story : Part 4
The fourth part of a personal account of becoming an adoptive parent
‘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
Adoption - A Mother’s Story : Part 3
The third part of a personal account of becoming an adoptive parent
Reforming Youth Welfare in Serbia
by Anton Tobé
The development of training and the introduction of family group conferences
‘A Place Called Hope’ by Tom O’Neill
Digest by Robert Shaw
Personal experiences of the care system shaped professional thinking.
‘Children in Foster Care: A Longitudinal Investigation’ by David Fanshel and Eugene B Shinn
Digest by Robert Shaw
A study of what makes for success in foster care
‘Institutional Care and Placing-Out; The Place of Each In the Care of Dependent Children’ by Elias L. Trotzkey
Digest by Robert Shaw
An early piece of comparative research, looking at added value
Integrated Services to Meet Individual Need
The Sycamore Services system for fostering children in residential care
Editorial: Of Fat Cats and Foster Carers
Foster care merits professional rewards.
Children and Foster Care: Inclusion, Exclusion and Life Chances
by Dr Keith J. White
Listening is the start to overcoming disadvantage.
I Would Not Swap This Job For the World
A job for professionals - and there are vacancies.
“The Children Find Living In a Family Setting Too Difficult.”
by Dr Keith J. White
The danger of dogma in meeting individual needs
Attachment During a Foster Care Placement
by Valerie Jackson
And the impact on the development of children’s brains
The Ideology of Residential Care and Fostering
by Dr Keith J. White
The damage of failing to reframe
60th Anniversary : Launching the History of FICE
by David Lane
Children, Families and Care: Reflections on the First Sixty Years of FICE
The Role of the Social Pedagogue
by Professor Ewan Anderson
The concept of pedagogy has a long history, but it is now finding its time.
