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

Scene in the Post Office Queue: Sally’s View

by Kathleen Lane

Same scene, but Sally’s View

Jonas Hanway: Pioneer Philanthropist

by Robert Shaw

An outstanding campaigner for many causes

‘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

Scene in the Post Office Queue

by Kathleen Lane

Passing on the problems

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.

Pathway Care : Harnessing Innovation To Attract Quality Foster Carers

by Conor Rooney

“The Children Find Living In a Family Setting Too Difficult.”

by Dr Keith J. White

The danger of dogma in meeting individual needs

Coping with Loss and Disruption

by Chris Durkin

Healing processes can help people to adjust.

Attachment During a Foster Care Placement

by Valerie Jackson

And the impact on the development of children’s brains

It Must Be Me

by Kathleen Lane

Making sense of chaos

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.

The Long Journey Home

by Clair Davies

A journey of one thousand steps – an Appletree Success Story

Child Care Past and Present

by Roger Bullock

Evaluating how things have changed over half a century

Running a Hotel in Montenegro : Real Jobs for Young People

by Anton Tobé

London’s Forgotten Children : Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital by Gillian Pugh

Book Review by David Lane

Youth Aging out of Care: An Overview

by Varda Mann-Feder

The Search for Therapeutic Residential Care

by Ian Milligan