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Is there a future for a boy with a past?

A study which highlighted the lack of research about girl offenders

The first comprehensive study

Is there a future for a boy with a past?

The puzzle of creating a solid future for a young person with problems

Lessons learnt from successful practice in residential treatment of disturbed behaviour

Is there a future for a boy with a past?

A study of the effectiveness of an observation and assessment centre

Indicators for success- and failure- in aftercare

The messages that records give - and fail to give

An important piece of child care history, but inadequately documented and worth reconsidering

NCERCC has given invaluable support to residential care but is under threat.

Including the importance of fathers, Barnardo’s and residential care, carrots and sticks, Attach-a-Tag and children’s questions

Is there a future for a boy with a past?

A combination of theory and practice which challenges readers to think

Does the current organisational environment permit good work with children?

Children are not just individuals; their environment matters too.

Two wrongs may not make a right, but two problems may solve each other.

Is there a future for a boy with a past?

Is there a future for a boy with a past?

A detailed study providing guidance to social workers on what works

Social workers’ views as to what works

Including a new residential care blog site, social work visits, the aftermath of crime, teddy bears and an anonymous staffing …

A neutral stance is impossible for a participant observer.

Learning from the past: systems change, but do the children?

A history of the Catholic Children’s Society in Westminster

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

Is there a future for a boy with a past?

Are the two approaches compatible?

Learning from losing power

Is there a future for a boy with a past?

A new project: watch this space to see how it emerges.

Research into adoption, fostering and residential care with surprising conclusions

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

Is there a future for a boy with a past?

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

Is there a future for a boy with a past?

Research lessons learnt from residential child care practice

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

Is there a future for a boy with a past?

A landmark study of children in long-term care

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

Is there a future for a boy with a past?

Life offers opportunities offered to re-interpret earlier experiences.

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

Using the residential group to let children address their problems

Another issue of the residential care journal: here are the Contents.

The thinking behind an unusual, innovative and lastingly influential institution

The focus is residential care and boarding education.

A seminal text which makes sense of other theoretical and practice-based work

Personal experiences of the care system shaped professional thinking.

A classic observation of what made residential therapy work

Research which led to change and some unexpected findings

Including school leaving age, the public image of teenage boys, David Cameron, Baby P and the social work task, better …

Post-discharge success was shown to depend on family contact.

Including young fathers, first-born children, substance abuse and new mores, primary education, gangs, social workers, bureaucracy and UNISON, residential care …

The importance of having somewhere to belong, a place you can all home

The classic example of a self-governing community for children

An honest account of learning to run a community for young offenders by experience

The impact of the Wagner Report over the last two decades

The priorities in meeting the needs of children in care

A landmark report that set professional standards for residential child care

A holistic approach to child care and the developmental needs of staff at different levels